Hold onto Your Hats: Tornado Warning in Effect

Um, those deathly looking clouds you see? Probably why a tornado warning is in effect. According to WNBC, the warning is for "Manhattan, the Bronx and Eastern Bergen counties until 5:45 p.m. and for Southern Westchester County until 6 p.m."

Per the National Weather Service: "TORNADO WARNING FOR...SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK... UNTIL 600 PM EDT...AT 520 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR YONKERS...OR NEAR EAST TREMONT...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...BRONXVILLE BY 530 PM...NEW ROCHELLE AND 6 MILES SOUTH OF SCARSDALE BY 540 PM...8 MILES SOUTH OF PORT CHESTER BY 600 PM..."

Last year, a tornado brought the subway system to a standstill. TGIF evening?

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By Jen Chung in News on August 15, 2008 5:53 PM

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Jerky

Weather radios worked fine. But if you own one, you're definitely in the minority!

JacqueMehoff

any warnings or alerts from those weather radios?

dadoc

What ever happened to the old Civil Defense sirens that I remember as a kid in Bkyln in the '60s? (Remember, Forgotten-NY?)

They were tested every day @ noon. Kinda surreal

experience as a kid: every day @ 12, church bells & sirens. And I grew up right where th '07 Bklyn Tornado hit.

Jerky

Considering there's been two damaging tornadoes in the metro area in the last couple of years (2006-Westchester, 2007 Brooklyn) the lack of EBS activiation is somewhat appalling. Are all the local emergency managers asleep at the wheel? Too busy with terrorism or bicyclists?

I guess they seem to be unaware that killer tornadoes ARE a real, but small, risk in the Northeast, e.g. google the 1953 Worcester Tornado or the May 31 1985 outbreak.

Steven

There wasn't many delays on the subway this evening. LIRR and Metro North trains fared much worse with tons of delays.

NannyState

What would it take to lure three or four twisters to the Hamptons? Drink coupons? Free coke?

pete

The Emergency Broadcast System is a joke. It didn't activate on 9/11, and by definition Tornados warrent an activation (thats what EBS is used for mostly, in the midwest).

Perhaps the Emergency Broadcast System exists to inform citizens to report to labor/death camps when the New World Order arrives?

Jerky

Tornadoes don't care too much about what's on the ground. The scale of tall buildings is still minimal considered to the scale of processes involved in tornado formation.

And if anyone was following this, the TV and Cable warning and information was pathetic. I was in one of the warned towns...no warning tone or scroller activation on cable, no coverage on channel 2, and the rest of the stations didn't start covering it until well into the warning. Just about the worst severe weather coverage I've ever seen....