Event Summary

A combination of a pre-frontal trough and a passing upper level disturbance produced an isolated severe storm in the morning, yielding a tornado in Queens and Brooklyn. An approaching cold front yielded another line of severe storms in the afternoon across the Lower Hudson Valley and New York City. Multiple trees and power lines were reported down in Flatbush. This is the second of four segments of a combined waterspout tornado event. The tornado originated as a waterspout approximately 1 mile south of the tip of Breezy Point at 10:56 am in ANZ-355, and crossed onto land, as a tornado approximately 2500 feet northeast of the tip of Breezy Point, Queens at 10:58 am. The tornado caused structural damage to the Breezy Point Surf Club near where the waterspout came onshore as a tornado. Damage was also reported near its exit point off Breezy Point, with multiple trees and power lines reported down near the Beach 216th Street, at 10:59 am. At this point the tornado exited as a waterspout into the eastern arm of Lower New York Harbor, ANZ-338, about 12,500 feet west of Rockaway Inlet. The waterspout then continued northeast until making landfall as a tornado in Kings County/Brooklyn to the southeast of Plumb Beach about 750 feet south of the Belt Parkway at 11:01 am. The tornado then continued moving northeast into Brooklyn where it produced EF1 damage in Canarsie, Brooklyn before lifting at 11:05 am. All lanes of the Grand Central Pkwy. were closed at the Van Wyck Expy. due to flooding.