Tornado in Westchester County

[loafer89]

I just was watching the news and a tornado has hit the Hawthorne area of White Plains causing damage and injuries in the area. It looks like a F0 or an F1 judging by the damage which is uprooted trees and a partial building collapse. Tornados are kind of rare around here, so the storm must have been quite strong.

 

[kickstand]

my wife - an IBM employee - was on the phone with some guys in White Plains when it hit. Apparently, they just hung up rather abruptly. Can't say I blame them. We've had a few recorded tornadoes here in New England over the last couple of days, and one a few weeks ago along the Maine/NH seacoast. Strange weather happenings these days.....

 

[JimG.]

I just was watching the news and a tornado has hit the Hawthorne area of White Plains causing damage and injuries in the area. It looks like a F0 or an F1 judging by the damage which is uprooted trees and a partial building collapse. Tornados are kind of rare around here, so the storm must have been quite strong.

Weather Channel called it a definite F1 and possibly an F2. It extensively damaged a carpeting manufacturing facility and tore down several brick walls.

This is the 2nd tornado in less than a month that has hit near this area, but unlike the first one which hit the town of LaGrange which is 10 minutes from my house, this tornado packed a real punch. It went through Tarrytown and Hawthorne; both places are about 15 minutes from where I work.

The storm cell that gave birth to the tornado was a bad one...the sky turned a dark yellow/green color and it rained in sheets. Wind was intense. About 10 miles west of here was where the tornado hit, and they got all the rain and hail too.

This was a bad one.