The National Weather Service has confirmed an EF0 tornado in Queens on Thursday evening, with winds of 85mph and a path of 0.7 miles.
A Tornado Warning was issued last night at 10:18pm by the National Weather Service, a few moments after strong rotation appeared on the Terminal Doppler Radar out of Kennedy Airport in Southern Queens.
A Tornado Warning was issued for Queens on Thursday evening shortly after 10:00pm, and the National Weather Service will head there this afternoon to investigate the possibility of tornado damage. Local terminal doppler radar showed the presence of a notable couplet, or signal for rotation, moving through College Point around 10:15pm.
Good morning! Have you noticed the cooler and drier air in place? Great! Are you enjoying it? Even better! Because it won’t be around for long.
The first several days of August, in particular, look to bring a sharp return to mid-summer conditions in the Northeast, with increasingly prevalent moisture and humidity. Temperatures will warm gradually as well, with a tropical-like feel to the airmass that looks likely to continue into the middle of August at minimum.
High pressure is weakening and sliding offshore from the Northeast states today. Sunshine and lower humidity is expected to persist through the afternoon, as drier air remains stout. Gradually, however, a southerly flow is expected to return. This will aid in an increase in humidity and clouds as the afternoon goes on, with high temperatures in the Northeast averaging in the lower to middle 80’s.
It’s warm, it’s humid, and it’s going to rain a lot. Welcome to the tropics.
A deep southeasterly flow (which, not coincidentally, draws air parcels directly from the tropical Atlantic into the Northeast) has established itself over the past 24 hours. Dew points have increased and so has the moisture content in the atmosphere, and with a frontal boundary draped from the Mid Atlantic into the Northeast states, showers and thunderstorms have been common during the afternoon and early evening hours.