So Was It a Tornado?

The National Weather Service still doesn’t know whether to classify last night’s storm, which spread through Brooklyn and Queens killing one woman whose car was hit by a tree, as a tornado.

Those of us who were on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn, when the storm twisted through the neighborhood and wreaked havoc, have no doubt. And the damage, according to the NY Times, “bore many of the hallmarks of a tornado, with the tops of countless trees sheared off and roofs blown off houses, but National Weather Service were still analyzing data to determine whether it should be classified as one.”

One thing is for sure:  those winds of 60 to 80 miles an hour caused widespread damage, including downed trees, smashed vehicles, homes and power failures in Brooklyn and Queens.

It looked like a tornado, it felt like a tornado, t acted like a tornado, it damaged like a tornado

Sounds like a tornado.

2 thoughts on “So Was It a Tornado?”

  1. What is your meteorological expertise, and why are you so invested in calling the devestating storm a “tornado?”

  2. Actually it looked, sounded, felt and acted like 80mph winds from a particularly nasty thunderstorm.

    Sounds like 80mph winds.

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