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Hold onto Your Hats: Tornado Warning in Effect
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Jen Chung
Published Aug 15, 2008
Modified Aug 15, 2008
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Published Aug 15, 2008
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Um, those deathly looking clouds you see? Probably why a tornado warning is in effect. According to WNBC, the warning is for "Manhattan, the Bronx and Eastern Bergen counties until 5:45 p.m. and for Southern Westchester County until 6 p.m."
Per the National Weather Service: "TORNADO WARNING FOR...SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK... UNTIL 600 PM EDT...AT 520 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR YONKERS...OR NEAR EAST TREMONT...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...BRONXVILLE BY 530 PM...NEW ROCHELLE AND 6 MILES SOUTH OF SCARSDALE BY 540 PM...8 MILES SOUTH OF PORT CHESTER BY 600 PM..."
Last year, a tornado brought the subway system to a standstill. TGIF evening?
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Jen Chung
Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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