Tornado watch for NY Metro area until 6PM

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http://www.weather.com/weather/alerts/localalerts/10001:4?phenomena=TO&significance=A&areaid=NYC061&office=KOKX&etn=0686

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 686 IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN CONNECTICUT THIS WATCH INCLUDES 1 COUNTY
IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT
FAIRFIELD
IN NEW JERSEY THIS WATCH INCLUDES 5 COUNTIES
IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY
BERGEN ESSEX HUDSON PASSAIC UNION
IN NEW YORK THIS WATCH INCLUDES 10 COUNTIES
IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK
BRONX KINGS (BROOKLYN) NASSAU NEW YORK (MANHATTAN) ORANGE PUTNAM QUEENS RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND) ROCKLAND WESTCHESTER

[Jamastiene]

1. Stay safe.

There was a tornado in western North Carolina yesterday. They had us under a watch in the eastern part of the state. It rained between 8 and 20 inches in some areas near the coast, then Wilmington flooded.

You do know it is going to turn around and come back inland once it goes through, right? That's what they are saying part of that system is going to do in the Carolinas anyhow. They are saying that will definitely be severe, as opposed to a "slight risk." I'm not looking forward to it at all.

Stay safe, everybody. I can't stand to see someone go through hideous storms and the damage they cause.

[rurallib]

2. Does NYC get tornado weather often? Is this an aberation?

And LA at 113+ yesterday OyVey!
more extreme weather or am I over reacting?

[Matariki]

3. Hell yes it's an aberation.

I remember a tornado in PA in the 70's - a SMALL tornado that uprooted a tree - so I guess it's not completely unprecedented. But still, tornadoes in NYC?? No. Not normal.

[rurallib]

6. didn't mean to seem silly.Just trying to verify what I thought.

these little incremental bits of extreme weather make me think of the analogy of the frog in the cooking pot.
Climate change will happen in increments. In the parlance of the life of the earth it is very fast. In the parlance of the life of a person it seems slow and can be denied.

We (Iowa) seldom had floods, except when the ice broke up in spring and damned the rivers. Now that never happens. Now our floods come from torrential downpours that are happening at greater and greater frequency. Flooding has become a common occurence out here.

I hope tornados do not become commonplace for NYC. That could be disastrous. Stay safe.

(and like an idiot, when we have tornados I usually go out and try to see it. But then I am always just a step from shelter.)

[leftynyc]

4. We had a touchdown just

last week or the week before - in Brooklyn. Before that - I don't recall any (although we have warnings every now and again). I think your fear of extreme weather is right on track (no pun intended).

[Renew Deal]

8. Brooklyn had their first tornado in 100 years a year or two ago.

We had two last week! There's been more tornados in the last couple of years than I remember in my entire life and I grew up in NY.

[KansasVoter]

5. We have so many here you sort of take them for granted which is not a good thing.

[rurallib]

7. We also.

[nyc 4 Biden]

9. thanks for heads up. n/t