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2007 Brooklyn tornado. The 2007 Brooklyn tornado was the strongest tornado on record to strike in New York City. It formed in the early morning hours of August 8, 2007, skipping along an approximately 9 miles (14 km)-long path, from Staten Island across The Narrows to Brooklyn. [2] The worst damage was in and around Sunset Park and Bay Ridge ...
Truck being crushed by a tree during the Brooklyn tornado on August 8, 2007. An EF2 tornado struck New York City at 6:30 am EDT (10:30 UTC) on August 8. The hardest-hit area was the Bay Ridge area of Brooklyn, where many trees—as much as 40% of the trees in Sunset Park were knocked down and several homes and buildings lost part of their roofs ...
1980–1989. May 2, 1983 - A F3 tornado touched down in Boonville, New York, the most intense tornado recorded in Oneida County. [7] May 31, 1985 – A large F4 tornado touched down in Erie County in Pennsylvania, before crossing the Pennsylvania-New York state line into Chautauqua County. Over 50 buildings were damaged or destroyed, and a dump ...
The claim: Video shows authentic tornado in New York City. A June 18 Facebook video shows a large tornado moving in a cityscape. "Tornado over new york city (sic) CAUGHT ON CAMERA," reads the ...
Tornado outbreak of July 1–3, 1997. Tornado outbreak of June 2, 1998. 1998 Lynbrook tornado. Late-May 1998 tornado outbreak and derecho. Tornado outbreak of April 27–28, 2002. 2006 Westchester County tornado. 2010 Brooklyn–Queens tornadoes. 2011 Super Outbreak. 2012 New York City tornadoes.
1Most severe tornado damage; see Enhanced Fujita scale. The 2010 Brooklyn/Queens tornadoes were a severe weather event that occurred in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City on September 16, 2010. These tornadoes were the second and third to touch down in New York City that year, the first having occurred in the Bronx on July 25.
The tornado outbreak of October 17–19, 2007 was a widespread tornado outbreak that took place across much of the eastern half of North America starting on October 17, 2007, and continuing into the early hours of October 19. The outbreak was also responsible for five deaths; three in Michigan and two in Missouri, plus many injuries (including ...
A fact from 2007 Brooklyn tornado appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 August 2007. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the 2007 Brooklyn tornado was the strongest tornado on record in New York City and the first in Brooklyn since 1889?