NYC on major storm alert; tornado watch in effect Sunday (tornado watch until 8 p.m.)

[onehandle]

Source: New York Daily News

The New York City area is under a tornado watch until 8 p.m. Sunday as storms approach the area, the National Weather Service announced.

The five boroughs will likely see thunderstorms by mid-afternoon that could drench the area in up to an inch of rain in under one hour.

Tornadoes are possible during those storms, said Brandon Smith, a National Weather Service meteorologist, but the most likely severe weather side effects will be damaging winds and large hail.

"It's a strong cold front coming in and there's lots of heat and humidity out ahead of it," Smith said.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/06/06/2010-06-06_nyc_on_major_storm_alert_tornado_watch_in_effect_sunday.html

[Ian David]

1. Bruce Boxleitner will destroy the tornado with a nuke. n/t

[onehandle]

3. LOL!

My wife and I loved that show. I am pretty sure she would leave me for Bruce. At least for a few hours.

[HopeHoops]

2. Yeah, damn near all of PA is on a tornado watch until 8 p.m. too.

Right now it is sunny, but we had a short and really nasty storm blow through about an hour ago.

[PhillyGurl]

22. WTF, are u serious??

Checking weather channel now. TG I live in a brick house with basement.

[dipsydoodle]

4. Keep your heads down.

:grouphug:

[defendandprotect]

5. Same here in NJ where we're at 93 degrees . . . . thunderstorm/tornado watch til 8pm....

[Left Coast2020]

6. Weird Stuff

We had a tornado (F1) touch down here in NorCal near DT Sacramento a few years ago. Never happened before. And to boot--2 funnel clouds that did not touch down, but swirled around on north end of town near airport. Bizarre.

[defendandprotect]

8. Don't know what the odds are for tornado in NJ ....

I'll have to look it up --

but, when you heat up the atmosphere -- GW -- you get chaotic weather conditions.

We're finally getting some heavy rain here now -- a little wind -- and we sure need

a cooling off!!

Good luck!!

:)

[left coaster]

21. Some numbers, by state..

[defendandprotect]

29. Thank you for that info . . . looks like we get an average of 3 a year in NJ...!!!

Didn't know that -- !!

:)

[FailureToCommunicate]

7. Just coming at us in eastern Mass. We got thru a "Walk for Life" fundraiser last night

without the predicted tornadoes or thunderstorms...
Hundreds of kids and families camped on open fields and a HS track---whew!

We're hoping for some more luck today...

[marybourg]

19. Whose life were you walking for? Anyone already born?

[FailureToCommunicate]

24. "Relay for Life" is a fundraiser for American Cancer Society. And my younger brother was

the person for whom we were walking...

[marybourg]

25. Relieved to hear it was "Relay for Life" rather than "Walk for Life':

http://www.walkforlifewc.com/
and my best wishes go out to your brother.

[FailureToCommunicate]

27. Thanks. Relay for Life are annual overnight fundraisers by almost 4 million people in 5000

cities and towns in the US and is considered one of the largest fundraiser on the planet. Proceeds of which go for a host of cancer related research and local cancer victim and family support services. Not to be confused with recent smatterings of anti-abortion rallies that attracted possibly 10,000 anti-choice protesters calling themselves 'walk for life'.


Thanks for the well wishes for my little brother. Unfortunately for us he lost his too short battle against pancreatic cancer.

And our country lost a prominent journalist battling government and corporate corruption.



info on American Cancer Society's real 'walk for life'

http://www.relayforlife.org/relay/relaymap

[marybourg]

28. I'm very sorry for your loss. Did you see the article on pancreatic

cancer on today's N.Y. Times website? It tells about a small amount of progress finally being made on this disease. Perhaps your family's fundraising helped make this possible.

[Bitwit1234]

9. Weather channel said this morning there was a chance of tornados

on the East Coast. You don't really thing so, it is so rare.

[On the Road]

12. In 2001,

there were tornadoes in Maryland. Ripped up College Park and Beltsville pretty good, uprooting a forest, skipping over the beltway, and tearing roofs off whole neighborhoods. There were two fatalities, but it was a miracle the death toll wasn't higher.



You're right -- it is rare. But it happens.

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. BP ads are everywhere! Trying to ck weather reports, we're forced to view BP telling us

what a great job they're doing and how they "care"

Same with full page ads in all major newspapers!

Where else could that money go that might do more good?

[defendandprotect]

11. Funny, watching Rachel the other night we noticed a Shell commercial . . !!!

rather surprising with her coverage of the BP spill . . .

[McCamy Taylor]

13. IOW, until hurricane season. Oh, joy.

[Xavyman]

14. I'm in Poughkeepsie, NY

A heavy storm, but it didn't last long.

[AsahinaKimi]

15. I can't even imagine

A tornado going down the middle of a Manhattan Street ~ is that even possible?

[intheflow]

16. Has there ever been a tornado in Manhattan?

I remember a few growing up in New England, but I'm imagining something like a scene from The Day After Tomorrow where those twisters ripped up L.A.

[FailureToCommunicate]

23. We were in one in NE Connecticut in early 90's. Trees flying sideways. Straw stuck in doors like

nails. Not fun. No lives lost, just lot's of beautiful old trees...

[Danmel]

17. It didn't even rain

And we didn't go to Coney Island to ride the Cyclone today because of those weathermen. No Cyclones in a Tornado!

[closeupready]

20. Rained in Brooklyn, briefly.

Pretty hard, but then it got nice again.

[defendandprotect]

18. Ohio Tornado . . . .

Ohio tornado kills 7, wrecks cop cars, graduation

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100606/ap_on_re_us/us_midwest_storms

[Ter]

26. It's a freezing 64 and windy now

Bring back 93 degrees and the heavy humidity.