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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY
833 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2006

...WEAK TORNADO OVER SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITIES...

NWS INVESTIGATORS DETERMINED THAT AN F0 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN
SEVERAL LOCATIONS OF EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NASSAU COUNTY IN EAST
MASSAPEQUA AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK COUNTY IN AMITYVILLE
BETWEEN 12 AND 1215 THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON. WINDS IN A F0 TORNADO
ARE UP TO 72 MPH.

THE TORNADO/S PATH WAS ONLY ABOUT ONE QUARTER OF A MILE LONG AND
AROUND 150 YARDS AT IT WIDEST PART IN MASSAPEQUA. PREDOMINANTLY TREE
DAMAGE COVERED THIS AREA OF THE SOUTH SHORE. ROTATION WAS EVIDENT IN
THE TOPS OF MANY OF THE TREES AND TORNADIC DAMAGE CAME VERY CLOSE TO
THE GROUND IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS. THE MOST DAMAGE OCCURRED FROM
AROUND CLOCKS BOULEVARD THEN MOVED SOUTHEAST ACROSS MELROSE AVENUE
ACROSS COUNTY LINE ROAD INTO AMITYVILLE/S OLD FIELDS AND HOMESTEAD
AVENUES. IT SEEMED TO LIFT BACK INTO THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM CLOUD
BY THE TIME THE STORM MOVED OVER KETCHAM AVENUE.

THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM ITSELF WAS SEVERE AS WELL. WINDS WERE
ESTIMATED AT 60 TO 70 MPH. HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS WAS ALSO
REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALSO OCCURRED WITH THIS
STORM CAUSING FLOODING OVER MANY SECTIONS OF NASSAU COUNTY AS WELL
AS SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK COUNTY.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WAS IN EFFECT WHEN THIS STORM HIT THE
AFFECTED AREA.

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WYLLIE