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Tornado Warning

TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 343 PM EDT WED JUL 12 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT...

* AT 339 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR TARRYTOWN... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS WILL BE NEAR... WHITE PLAINS BY 350 PM. HARRISON BY 355 PM. PORT CHESTER BY 400 PM.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES... EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK.

Edited July 12, 2006 by hoss

[bob803 1]

15:52 *** Possible Tornado touchdown Hawthrone California Closests Bld Collapse.

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Tornado Warning Update

/O.CON.KOKX.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z- 060712T2015Z/ WESTCHESTER NY- 347 PM EDT WED JUL 12 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM EDT FOR SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER COUNTY...

AT 343 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR TARRYTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... THORNWOOD...PLEASANTVILLE AND WHITE PLAINS BY 355 PM. HARRISON BY 400 PM. ARMONK...RYE BROOK AND 6 MILES NORTH OF PORT CHESTER BY 405 PM.

A WATERSPOUT WAS REPORTED EARLIER WITH THIS STORM NEAR THE TAPPAN ZEE BRIDGE. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE... SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK.

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Everyone Stay safe.

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Everyone Stay safe.

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Everyone Stay safe.

[IzzyEng4 427]

Tornado warning / Watch in effect for Southwestern Fairfield county until 1430.

1549 sever thunderstoms picked up on doppler 15 mile west of New Cannan

TORNADO POSSIBLE

Water spout seen near Tappan Zee Bridge earlier.

per Weather Channel

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Tornado touched down at 16 Saw Mill River Rd "California Closets" Building Collapse...Hawthorne, Thornwood, and Valhalla dispatched

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The warning has been lifted.

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pcfdrfd700, thanks for the update RE: WC warning

FOR CT:

TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 353 PM EDT WED JUL 12 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT...

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT

* AT 349 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 15 MILES WEST OF NEW CANAAN...OR ABOUT NEAR WHITE PLAINS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS WILL BE NEAR... NEW CANAAN BY 425 PM. NORWALK...WILTON AND 9 MILES SOUTH OF GEORGETOWN BY 430 PM.

THIS STORM HAS ALREADY PRODUCED A WATERSPOUT NEAR THE TAPPAN ZEE BRIDGE. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IF IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM!

Edited July 12, 2006 by hoss

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Tornado Warning Update

/O.EXP.KOKX.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z- 060712T2030Z/

FAIRFIELD CT- 426 PM EDT WED JUL 12 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY EXPIRES AT 430 PM EDT...

THE STORM HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

PLEASE REPORT ANY TORNADOES...HAIL OR DOWNED TREES TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WHO WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

[unleashedff248 3]

Just got home from work...I-684 southbound just south of exit 3 (Armonk) looks like a warzone. You can see where the tornado crossed over the southbound lanes into the northbound ones and into the Greenwich area. It's about a 500' by 500' swath of sheared trees. Multiple road closures in Greenwich as well between Glenville and Armonk. Unbelievable...

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This is in todays Journal News. A little history on when previous Tornadoes touched down here in Westchester County.

• June 2, 2000: Continental Village in Cortlandt was hit by a tornado when winds of up to 100 mph whipped through the lakeside community on the West-chester-Putnam border. The tornado, which hit about 7:30 p.m., snapped some of the neighborhood's large evergreens. One resident suffered a broken vertebra when the deck he was on collapsed because of the wind.

• July 10, 1989: A tornado tore through the King's Grant condominium complex in Carmel. The 200-mph winds ripped off roofs, flattened trees and tossed pink insulation around the 150-unit complex off Fair Street. The tornado also flattened two houses on Fair Street and threw around metal garbage bins. It was first sighted in the Brewster Heights section of Southeast before touching down in Carmel about 6 p.m. that day. No one was seriously injured and property damage was estimated at $5 million.

• Sept. 26, 1977: A tornado was recorded in the Ossining area.

• Sept. 1, 1974: A tornado was recorded in the Yonkers area.

• Aug. 11, 1971: A tornado was recorded in the Mount Vernon area.

• July 29, 1971: A storm dropped a funnel down in a Mahopac business district, between Route 6 and Lake Mahopac. It wrenched the roof off Whalen Moving and Storage Co. and dumped it on a nearby home. Many businesses, including Mahopac Marine, were damaged before the tornado moved across the lake. No injuries were reported.

• Aug. 9, 1968: A tornado touched down briefly in the northern section of Philipstown.

• June 11, 1922: A suspected tornado is credited with widespread damage along the Westchester coast from New Rochelle to Harrison and the northern part of New York City at City Island, according to the account in the "History of West-chester."

"The wind blew for 20 minutes ... and left 50 electric wires down and 200 shade trees uprooted in New Rochelle," the account says. Although there was "considerable warning given," the storm was blamed for sinking thousands of boats and "taking eight lives and leaving other bathers to a fate of the unknown."

• 1812: The earliest recorded tornado in the Westchester-Putnam area blew through White Plains, Harrison, Rye and Greenwich, tearing up trees, orchards, barns and fences, said Jerome Thaler, a local climate historian and National Weather Service observer.

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Storm did F-2 damage the winds had to be between 112-156 mph the california closet sustained alot of damage. Westchester should consider installing sirens for warning people when storms like this occur.