F2 Tornado Confirmed In Brooklyn
What was thought to be a violently windy thunderstorm that plowed through Brooklyn Wednesday morning turned out to be a weather event of historical proportions.
The National Weather Service confirmed that the storm brought with it Brooklyn’s first ever tornado since such weather events were recorded. Officials measured it to be an EF2 twister, characterized by winds of anywhere from 111 to 135 miles per hour.
A tornado warning had been issued in Brooklyn from 4 a.m. to 6 a.m., and during that time a severe thunderstorm blew through the region, making for an incredible headache for morning commuters. Thousands of New Yorkers found themselves enduring hours of delays in the sweltering heat with subways shut down and vacant taxi cabs hard to come by.
I can confirm that it was quite a wild storm here this morning. Lightning was flashing like a strobe light and the thunder was booming like artillery from around 4am to 6am. Public transportation was in total havoc, with my subway line flooded and out of commission for the morning rush hour. Even now around the evening rush hour things are not quite back to normal.
