{"id":2970,"date":"2010-09-19T06:21:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T12:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2010-09-19T04:34:04","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T10:34:04","slug":"new-york-city-tornadoes-confirmed-rare-event-also-brings-125-mph-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/new-york-city-tornadoes-confirmed-rare-event-also-brings-125-mph-winds\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City tornadoes confirmed – Rare event also brings 125 mph winds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a rare occurrence, two tornadoes struck the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens on Thursday, September 16, 2010. View more images in the slideshow below.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Severe weather struck the Big Apple this past Thursday and brought with it only the sixth and seventh tornadoes to strike New York City since record keeping began in 1950.\u00a0 Accompanying the storms were straight-line winds packing a 125 mph punch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Funnel clouds were spotted in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn from the storms that also brought extraordinary winds and driving rain.\u00a0 The severe thunderstorm<\/a> toppled trees and power lines and left one woman dead.<\/p>\n

The National Weather Service sent a team to look at the damage and determine if the winds were the result of a tornado or straight-line winds.\u00a0 The answer is that two tornadoes -one an EF0 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, the other an EF1 – struck Brooklyn and Queens.<\/p>\n