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5/19/06 1030-EDT Tornado in NYC
self- on scene | 5/19/06 | atomicvomit

Posted on 05/19/2006 8:08:43 AM PDT by Atomic Vomit

Tornado touch down on upper Newark Bay. No reports yet of damage. Heavy squalls continue in area.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: funnelcloud; newarkbay; newjersey; newyork; nj; ny; tornado; weather
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To: AConnecticutYankee

Me too. Just a big huge thunder boomer here. But dark as all heck!


21 posted on 05/19/2006 8:24:58 AM PDT by areafiftyone
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To: Atomic Vomit

Report from Midtown Manhattan: black as midnight outside and pouring buckets. Wish the tornado would pick up the people lined up for the Da Vinci code.


22 posted on 05/19/2006 8:26:39 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: Atomic Vomit

Was that a Union or non-Union tornado?


23 posted on 05/19/2006 8:27:07 AM PDT by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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To: Atomic Vomit

Now there's something you don't see everyday.


24 posted on 05/19/2006 8:27:29 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (The social contract is breaking down.)
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To: firebrand
Tornado in Harlem causes Rev Al to dance..


25 posted on 05/19/2006 8:28:02 AM PDT by petercooper (Cemeteries & the ignorant - comprising 2 of the largest Democrat voting blocs for the past 75 years.)
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To: Atomic Vomit
It's direction of travel was NNW-

Interesting. It's difficult to see from the photos if it actually touched down. Strange that the 'tail' is not dark and more tapered.

Even more strange that it's traveling to the NNW.

Midwestern tornados typically move out of the West instead of heading West. I will be watching to see if any weather authorities comment on the lack of tapered tail and the absence of darkness in the tail.

26 posted on 05/19/2006 8:28:04 AM PDT by Iowa Granny
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To: Iowa Granny

Wow amazing but I am sure it happened on the NJ side.


27 posted on 05/19/2006 8:31:10 AM PDT by RepublicanMetal
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To: ExpatGator; pgkdan

I believe a waterspout is simply a tornado over water. I don't think there's a difference beyond that.


28 posted on 05/19/2006 8:31:14 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Atomic Vomit; cyborg; onyx; stand watie

There's going to be a severe twister on Long Island on June 11 if anything goes wrong with the wedding arrangements. This one will be a special Trinidadian storm also known as the M-I-L.



;O)


29 posted on 05/19/2006 8:32:29 AM PDT by Petronski (I just love that woman.)
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To: petercooper

That is funny.


30 posted on 05/19/2006 8:33:10 AM PDT by RepublicanMetal
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To: dead

Well basically that's correct except that the waterspout is full of water and they typically fall apart when they hit land.


31 posted on 05/19/2006 8:34:54 AM PDT by pgkdan
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To: AConnecticutYankee

So about every 4-5 years? I don't remember ever hearing about tornados up that way.

I grew up in Iowa, so tornadoes were a way of life. I don't really miss them much--although I'm not looking forward to earthquakes, either.


32 posted on 05/19/2006 8:35:05 AM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (Mmm! The tears of unfathomable sadness! Yummy!)
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To: Iowa Granny
"Midwestern tornados typically move out of the West instead of heading West."

Northeastern tornadoes are not familiar with the rules.

Amateurs...
33 posted on 05/19/2006 8:35:29 AM PDT by FortWorthPatriot (Semper Fidelis)
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To: dead

Waterspouts are somewhat rare in the northeast, especially this time of year. This is not really that similar to a big tornado alley type of storm... most likely a cold air funnel with the low pressure system so close by. Waterspouts look like tornadoes, but they are often caused by much more benign storms.


34 posted on 05/19/2006 8:39:41 AM PDT by nwctwx (Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
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To: dead

There is a difference. Over water they are always weaker. Always. I have seen literally hundreds of waterspouts, and been within feet of a couple, and they very seldom approach F1 category. That waterspout in the picture would not lift the towing howser off of the deck of the yard tug in the foreground.


35 posted on 05/19/2006 8:40:27 AM PDT by ExpatGator (Progressivism: A polyp on the colon politic.)
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To: Choose Ye This Day

That was my home turf for over 30 years, though I wasn't always home. :) Still I'd have heard of any unusual weather. All told I remember seeing ONE and hearing of maybe two or three others in all those years.
One of my uncles worked for the weather bureau, weather was all he knew or ever talked about. A true obsessor. When the one tornado I saw arrived, he was already senile and he snapped right out of it when he saw it. I think he died happy, later that year. It sure was awesome.


36 posted on 05/19/2006 8:43:34 AM PDT by Graymatter
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To: Gay State Conservative
Toto,we're not in Teteboro any more

My favorite name is "Mawah." They have cool names in New Jersey... and the straightest toll road on the east coast. It's a nice break in the ride from MA to VA.

37 posted on 05/19/2006 8:50:34 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: FortWorthPatriot
Northeastern tornadoes are not familiar with the rules.

No, we think that rules are for midwest tornadoes.

38 posted on 05/19/2006 8:51:51 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: firebrand
Report from Midtown Manhattan: black as midnight outside and pouring buckets. Wish the tornado would pick up the people lined up for the Da Vinci code.

And then it could empty out the Upper West Side (starting with Central Park West) and then move up to Boston,Cambridge,Brookline and Newton,MA.

39 posted on 05/19/2006 8:54:47 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: firebrand

Wish the tornado would pick up the people lined up for the Da Vinci code.
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LOL. Taking your distaste for Davinci Code a bit far, doncha think?

Say to yourself... it's only a movie.

Freepers seem to want this movie to tank just like the DUers wanted to see The Passion tank. We all know Mel's movie didn't and guess what, DaVinci code won't either.


40 posted on 05/19/2006 8:54:49 AM PDT by dmz
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