it may come sooner.
Posted on 06/10/2008 7:26:55 AM PDT by xcamel
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 499 IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN CONNECTICUT THIS WATCH INCLUDES 1 COUNTY
IN NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT
LITCHFIELD
IN MASSACHUSETTS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 1 COUNTY
IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS
BERKSHIRE
IN NEW YORK THIS WATCH INCLUDES 15 COUNTIES
IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK
ALBANY COLUMBIA DUTCHESS FULTON GREENE HAMILTON HERKIMER MONTGOMERY RENSSELAER SARATOGA SCHENECTADY SCHOHARIE ULSTER WARREN WASHINGTON
IN VERMONT THIS WATCH INCLUDES 2 COUNTIES
IN SOUTHERN VERMONT
BENNINGTON WINDHAM
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ALBANY...AMSTERDAM...ARLINGTON... ATHENS...BEACON...BELLOWS FALLS...BENNINGTON...BRATTLEBORO... CAIRO...CAMBRIDGE...CATSKILL...COBLESKILL...COXSACKIE... DOLGEVILLE...FORT EDWARD...FRANKFORT...GLENS FALLS... GLOVERSVILLE...GRANVILLE...GREENWICH...HERKIMER...HUDSON... HUDSON FALLS...ILION...JEFFERSON HEIGHTS...JOHNSTOWN...KINGSTON... LITTLE FALLS...MIDDLEBURGH...MOHAWK...NEW PALTZ...NORTH ADAMS... PITTSFIELD...POUGHKEEPSIE...ROTTERDAM...SARATOGA SPRINGS... SCHENECTADY...SPECULATOR...TORRINGTON...TROY...WELLSVILLE... WEST BRATTLEBORO...WEST GLENS FALLS AND WHITEHALL.
Yikes, my wife is flying into Syracuse from Spain today via Newark. Hope there aren’t any problems.
Thanks for the heads up on this, BTW.
Dead calm, sunny and hot here right now. I’ll get pics if we get any wild weather. Tornadoes are exceedingly rare here due to our topography.
Ought to be exciting...
Where I live we had our first tornado touchdown in 30 years. Not a huge amount of damage and nobody hurt, but they do happen in unusual places.
She should be ok. Might be delayed though.
I'll bet air travel throughout the northeast will be a mess this evening.
nah, Syracuse is a little too north for this one...
Looks like Syracuse is getting hit with the tstorms in about an hour
A section of my homestate, CT is affected, it is not suprising considering the severe heat my state and the other states is going through.
The last time I saw a tornado in NY had to be about 20+ years ago and even that never touched ground. Tornadoes are rare in this state so I hope nothing comes of this.
Thats unpossible. As a Kansan, I resent the tornadoes moving to parts of the country that never get them.
She's supposed to arrive a little after six. Hopefully the worst will be over by then, but I know how delays can ripple through the system. Anyway, it's in the hands of the airline gods now.
Didn't Brooklyn have a tornado last year? I blame Global Warming and George Bush.
The Midwest has had so many this year that we decided to share.
it may come sooner.
Could be I didn't hear of it but yes that's true, those air conditioners and SUVs are definitely to blame and I know this for a fact because algore said so. :)
http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=da92fd92cedc02297d38f7cbc6fcf1af4378b41c
Bay Ridge and Sunset Park in Brooklyn, NY.
I was raised in the midwest, but live in Connecticut now. In Minnesota, we’d have a half-dozen warnings a summer... the scary run-to-the-basement kind. In Connecticut, we have a tornado about once every five years, and we’ve never had to go to the basement.
Tornados are rare here, but when they occur they are small. We don’t have the town-killer category 5 types you have. At worst, we’ll have a couple homes that will lose a roof and we’ll be without power for a couple of days.
So let us have a couple cat 1’s, just to keep us respectful of what you go through.
They certainly did; see my post 21 for video.
If you put that map into motion, those storms are moving to the northeast. For Connecticut to get hit, new storms will have to develop along the front.
This is the same system that produced the tornados in Illinois/NW Indiana!
I’m in Ottawa.
I’d say it will hit here within the hour.
Thanks for the headsup, I live in Herkimer, NY about 60 miles east of Syracuse. Looks like it is about an hour or two away. Gives me time to cut the grass. By the way it is 90 degrees up here and it is only 11:30 est.
Back in 1998 Mechanicville, NY ws hit quite bad by a tornado- I remember it well
Remember the Tornado of 1979, BG?
As do I - My brother lived over on cr rt 75 at the time...
Just missed him...
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Posted June 10, 2008
Updated 11:00 AM
(WTNH) _ A tornado watch is in effect for Litchfield County until 6pm.
"The National Weather Service has issued some warnings for some potentially severe weather later this afternoon," Storm Team 8's Dr. Mel said. "By late afternoon keep an eye on the sky."
A tornado watch means conditions are favorable for tornadoes and severe thunderstorms. People in the area should be on the lookout for threatening weather conditions.
Dr. Mel has been around a while.
I remember it well.
I was working 2nd shift just south in Windsor Locks of where it hit.
They let us home early, the sky was strangely black while it passed.
The destruction was indescribable. A lady friends home was gone, A friend who took his restored Vette to work ( It was mint ) was literally sandblasted, he was lucky. A number of aircraft at BTL at the Air Museum were tossed like toys and destroyed, not to mention some Gen-Av aircraft, including a homebuilt that had just about 70 hrs. on it. A little known story is an airliner was on final approach when it it hit and he get out of their in a hurry and probably saved many souls aboard.
Since then I take storm fronts very seriously.
Luckily for us in western PA, it blew through early morning hours. The second tail of the front produced portentious gusts of wind but nary a drop of rain.
The last time CT had a tornado was 1979 — It hit a school in Windsor 15 minutes after the kids were out. My G/f’s brother was a student there. The most damage was to the air Museum.
How sweet of you. Want a Nor Easter next winter? I'll email Karl Rove.
My gf’s brother just got out of Poquonock School and he said the skys were pitch black. Myself, I was at work and it was just rainy across the river.
That was not the last time, just one of the more famous ones. The July 7, 1989 stormfront that passed through Litchfield and New haven Counties was very impressive, and killed two people.
Golf courses are dangerous places to be in a storm. Be careful! Oh, and keep your head down.
An hour after the previous event reigned destruction in Upstate New York, a new tornado family began producing significant damage in the adjacent state of Connecticut. The first tornado, which may have been three separate tornadoes, started its path of destruction in Cornwall, leveling a virgin forest known as Cathedral Pines. The tornado continued south-southeast through Milton, leveling hundreds more trees, and destroyed the village of Bantam before disippating.[2] Strong winds continued to cause damage and level trees after this tornado stopped causing damage. It was during this period between tornadoes that a 12-year-old girl was killed by falling trees in Black Rock State Park.[3]
Let me know how you fare - I have a cabin just uphill from Newport.
Anyone have an idea when this might hit Bennington, Vermont?
I forgot about the ‘89 tornado I wonder how ‘CATHEDRAL Pines’ doing??
My brother - bought 7 ‘73 Ford Mustangs that got totaled in the ‘79 tornado. He sold the engine from one of them for the price of all of the Mustangs. When the junkyard towed the Mustang from our parents house — there was nothing left — just the body.
Looking at that animated map the line appears to be moving in a North Easterly direction which may mean it will be a while before it moves through MASS and CONN. Vermont may get hit sooner that us. Normally fronts move from the North West to South East. This one’s different.
I was in Suffield at the time, working on a farm. I’ll never forget that day.
Still blue skies and not even a breeze now. Although the sat pictures make it look like the storm is getting close.
Thanks! Will do!
Hide the maple syrup and children. :^)
We’re getting hit right now but it is just normal summer t-storm activity. Temp has dropped big time in the last hour though.
Some day I’ll have AC.
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