PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...REVISED
TORNADO DAMAGE SURVEY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY
232 PM EDT TUE AUG 14 2007

...NEW YORK CITY TORNADO ON AUGUST 8TH...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS ALONG WITH NEW YORK CITY 
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS CONFIRMED THAT SEVERAL TORNADO 
TOUCHDOWNS OCCURRED ALONG AN APPROXIMATE 9 MILE PATH FROM STATEN 
ISLAND TO BROOKLYN IN THE EARLY MORNING OF AUGUST 8TH.

THE FIRST TORNADO TOUCHDOWN WAS IN STATEN ISLAND AT APPROXIMATELY 
6:22 AM IN THE VICINITY OF ST. AUSTINS PLACE IN THE LIVINGSTON - 
RANDALL MANOR AREA. THE TORNADO MOVED EAST...WITH ADDITIONAL DAMAGE 
OCCURRING IN THE TOMPKINSVILLE AREA. MOST OF THE DAMAGE IN STATEN 
ISLAND WAS TO TREES...AND ESTIMATED AT EF-1 ON THE ENHANCED FUJITA 
SCALE...WITH WINDS OF 86 TO 100 MPH. 

BASED ON RE-ANALYSIS OF RADAR DATA, THE STATEN ISLAND TORNADO 
APPARENTLY DISSIPATED AS A SECOND CIRCULATION DEVELOPED JUST NORTH 
OF THE FIRST CIRCULATION. THE DAMAGE IN TOMPKINSVILLE MAY BE A 
RESULT OF THIS SECOND CIRCULATION.   

THIS CIRCULATION INTENSIFIED AS IT MOVED EAST ACROSS THE VERRAZANO 
NARROWS. THE TORNADO RE-DEVELOPED BY THE TIME THE CIRCULATION MOVED 
ON SHORE IN BROOKLYN. DAMAGE IN THE FORM OF FALLEN TREES AND 
STRUCTURAL ROOF DAMAGE OCCURRED IN BAY RIDGE STARTING IN THE AREA 
FROM SHORE ROAD BETWEEN 71ST AND 78TH EASTWARD TO BAY RIDGE BLVD. 
THIS OCCURRED AT APPROXIMATELY 6:32 AM. THE TORNADO MAY HAVE BRIEFLY 
LIFTED AND THEN TOUCHED DOWN AGAIN ON BAY RIDGE AVENUE BETWEEN THIRD 
AND FOURTH AVENUES...AND CONTINUED ON AN EAST-NORTHEAST PATH ACROSS 
68TH STREET BETWEEN THIRD AND FOURTH AVENUES. ELEVEN HOMES IN THIS 
SECTION HAD MODERATE TO SEVERE ROOF DAMAGE. THE STORM CONTINUED TO 
MOVE EAST-NORTHEAST INTO LEIF ERICSON PARK SQUARE...WHERE SEVERE 
DAMAGE TO TREES OCCURRED. AS THE TORNADO LIFTED...IT TORE OFF THE 
ROOF OF THE NISSAN CAR DEALERSHIP AT THE CORNER OF 66TH STREET AND 
FIFTH AVENUE. THE TORNADO RETURNED TO THE GROUND FARTHER 
NORTHEAST...WITH SCATTERED TREE DAMAGE ALONG 6TH AVENUE. BASED ON 
THE ASSESSED DAMAGE IN BAY RIDGE...THIS TORNADIC DAMAGE IS 
CLASSIFIED AS EF-2 WITH ESTIMATED WIND SPEEDS OF 111 TO 135 MPH.

THE TORNADO RETURNED TO THE GROUND AS ANOTHER POCKET OF SIGNIFICANT 
DAMAGE OCCURRED ON 58TH STREET BETWEEN FIFTH AND SIXTH AVENUES. THE 
ROOF WAS RIPPED OFF OF 5 HOMES...AND TREE DAMAGE INDICATES STRONG 
EF-1 DAMAGE.

THE TORNADO THEN HEADED EAST...AND TOUCHED DOWN AT LEAST THE FOURTH 
BUT FINAL TIME IN KENSINGTON JUST EAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF CHURCH 
AVENUE AND BEVERLY ROAD AT APPROXIMATELY 6:40 AM. NUMEROUS 
TREES...APPROXIMATELY 30...WERE UPROOTED ALONG OCEAN PARKWAY AS THE 
TORNADO MOVED EAST. THE TORNADO PRODUCED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO TREES 
AND STRUCTURES IN THE AREA WITH EAST 8TH AND 7TH STREETS BEING HIT 
HARD. DAMAGE WAS REPORTED AS FAR EAST AS ARGYLE ROAD. THE TORNADO 
WAS ON THE GROUND FOR APPROXIMATELY 1/2 MILE IN THIS AREA BEFORE IT 
LIFTED.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS ALONG WITH METEOROLOGISTS 
FROM THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK CONTINUE TO 
ANALYZE DATA FROM THIS HISTORIC METEOROLOGICAL EVENT. 

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAD ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR 
PORTIONS OF STATEN ISLAND AND BROOKLYN AT 6:28 AM. A SECOND TORNADO 
WARNING WAS ISSUED AT 6:50 AM FOR SECTIONS OF 
BROOKLYN...QUEENS...AND NASSAU COUNTY.

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TONGUE/CRISTANTELLO