Strong Storm Rips Through Parts of NY City

Attached are 2 weather photos of the storm that came through New York on Thursday 9/16/10. The extreme weather shown in red can be easily distinguished from the strong weather which is shown in green and blue. NY City is in the center of the screen towards the bottom. It is clearly in the green and blue section. Parts of Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island took the brunt of the storm.

"Weather officials confirmed Friday night that two tornadoes and a macroburst touched down in New York City the previous day.

The National Weather Service said that the first EF0 tornado touched down in Park Slope, Brooklyn with winds of 80 mph after 5 p.m. Thursday and traveled two miles northeast.

The second EF1 tornado touched down about 2.5 miles south of Flushing, Queens and traveled north to Bayside with winds of up to 100 mph, before lifting over the waters. Middle Village and Forest Hills, Queens were the neighborhoods hit hardest.

The macroburst, which is a sudden acceleration of wind coming out of a fast-moving storm that's more than 2.5 miles long, created the most damage in Queens, moving through Forest Hills and Middle Village with winds up to 125 mph. "The [macroburst's] actual width upon touchdown was on the order of about 1.5 miles wide and the damage path that spread out made a cone of up to five miles wide," said Gary Conte of the National Weather Service.

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Watch the video below to see a newscast of the Storm that came through New York on Thursday 9/16/10.