Severe Thunderstorm WARNING Sunday evening 11/15
From the NWS:
At 757 PM EST, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles northwest of Wallkill to near Franklin to Chester to near Bridgewater to near Doylestown, moving east at 55 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and power lines. * Severe thunderstorms will be near... West Milford around 800 PM EST. Upper Greenwood Lake around 805 PM EST. Plainfield and Ringwood around 810 PM EST. Summit and Millburn around 815 PM EST. Orange and Monsey around 820 PM EST. Newark and Paterson around 825 PM EST. Jersey City and Passaic around 830 PM EST. Hoboken and Hackensack around 835 PM EST. Mott Haven and Nanuet around 840 PM EST. Yonkers and East Tremont around 845 PM EST. New Rochelle and White Plains around 850 PM EST. Todt Hill and Port Richmond around 855 PM EST. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building.
Looks pretty close - future cast looks like 8:40 is the worst for us (with this band) - pretty fast moving at least,
Lost power in South Orange as well. Transformer blew up in our back yard.
I'm still up from the winds and pressure drop.... *sigh*.
May as well get some work done...
Our power loss is pretty local. A tree branch landed on the lines. One of the three power-carrying lines is off the top of the utility pole. Not sure how many houses are affected but across the street they have power.
I noticed this morning the feed lines from the transformer to our power drop are severed. So those will have to be fixed as well.
Ours was about a square mile or so, but I don't know what the actual damage was. lasted about 3 hours.
Took the opportunity for a road trip to WaWa with my son to load up on WaWa food.
Has anyone else ever marveled at the incredible selection of potato chips and other similar snack foods offered by WaWa? I mean, they've gotta have 15 derivatives of Cheetos alone. (This is the new store in Springfield. YWWMV)
Pretty amazing. Picked up some Utz Crab flavored chips.
(am I in the wrong thread?)
Fairly certain (though I can't 100% know for sure) I saw a tornado associated with the warning near NYC last night. A circulation developed over East Rutherford and became tornado warned just before crossing the river. I had a view from my apartment in NYC and saw several power flashes right underneath the circulation. Waiting for NWS to verify, but there was a clear debris signature on radar.
someone tweeted about a possible tornado in NYC also. There was a video showing all kinds of debris whipping around the street.
Wow! Apparently I just survived my first NYC Tornado pic.twitter.com/cx82tnEdoo
— MichaelWilliamG (@MichaelWilliamG) November 16, 2020
As the wind picked up, my ears were listening for that 'train' sound, and I was ready to wake the kids and get us all downstairs.
I heard that 'train' sound in the wind only once, and it was the night large trees were uprooted on Midland Blvd -- probably about a decade ago.
sprout said:
As the wind picked up, my ears were listening for that 'train' sound, and I was ready to wake the kids and get us all downstairs.
I heard that sound only once before, and it was the night large trees were uprooted on Midland Blvd -- probably about a decade ago.
I remember that night. We lived on Summit Ave around the corner. My neighbor was standing on her covered back porch and said she watched the tree in my other neighbor's back yard suddenly twist 180 degrees and sending splinters everywhere. It was an oooold tree and landed on three lots, including right on one house.
That storm was a declared microburst, not a tornado. The damage from that microburst was severe all over town, most dramatically in Midland Blvd where it seemed that the entire line of trees on the middle island was taken down by the wind.
70 mph gust on Staten Island. I suppose Coumo will blame that on New Jersey as well.
***********************PEAK WIND GUST***********************
LOCATION MAX WIND TIME/DATE COMMENTS
GUST OF
MPH MEASUREMENT
CONNECTICUT
...Fairfield County...
Stamford 67 747 PM 11/15 CWOP
Bridgeport Airport 61 914 PM 11/15 ASOS
Greenwich 57 716 PM 11/15 CWOP
Bridgeport 53 818 PM 11/15 NOS-NWLON
Bridgeport 46 803 PM 11/15 CWOP
...New Haven County...
New Haven Airport 58 830 PM 11/15 ASOS
New Haven 56 825 PM 11/15 CWOP
Milford 53 806 PM 11/15 CWOP
Stony Creek 52 928 PM 11/15 CWOP
Meriden Airport 46 934 PM 11/15 ASOS
...New London County...
Groton Airport 55 1024 PM 11/15 ASOS
NEW JERSEY
...Essex County...
Caldwell 55 817 PM 11/15 ASOS
...Union County...
Newark Airport 60 829 PM 11/15 ASOS
NEW YORK
...Nassau County...
1 NW Uniondale (WEAT 51 820 PM 11/15 MESOWEST
Muttontown 47 905 PM 11/15 CWOP
Valley Stream 46 806 PM 11/15 CWOP
...Queens County...
NYC/La Guardia 62 844 PM 11/15 ASOS
NYC/JFK Airport 59 755 PM 11/15 ASOS
Jackson Heights 49 900 PM 11/15 CWOP
...Richmond County...
2 SE Elizabeth 70 830 PM 11/15 NDBC
...Suffolk County...
Islip Airport 54 933 PM 11/15 ASOS
Orient 54 1000 PM 11/15 CWOP
Farmingdale Airport 54 915 PM 11/15 ASOS
Farmingville 51 947 PM 11/15 CWOP
West Gilgo Beach 50 816 PM 11/15 CWOP
Shirley Airport 49 928 PM 11/15 ASOS
Stony Brook 49 816 PM 11/15 CWOP
Orient 48 1016 PM 11/15 CWOP
Stony Brook 46 934 PM 11/15 CWOP
...Westchester County...
White Plains Airport 53 849 PM 11/15 ASOS joan_crystal said:
That storm was a declared microburst, not a tornado. The damage from that microburst was severe all over town, most dramatically in Midland Blvd where it seemed that the entire line of trees on the middle island was taken down by the wind.
Whatever it was, it definitely made the 'train' sound that is also heard with a tornado.
Severe Thunderstorm Watch.
A line of strong storms is moving west across New Jersey. Although likely to be brief, storms could bring thunder, lightning, and wind gusts up to 50 mph in the next hour or two. The watch continues until 2:00am.