New York City NYC Storm (Tornado) September 16, 2010 (9/16/10)

[JamesSkullWielder]

Chuck Norris sneezed

[ferkudai]

I never thought a tornado could actually go through a city like that. :S

[EpicKidz31]

that happened today so here's the story.... My and my family are going to vegas and it was very sunny and it was 107 degrees anyways the temp dropped to 60 degrees and out of no where a massive storm (exactly the same type from this video) comes out of nowhere and we could not see the road so we had to drive slow...like very slow

[jacerocks1001]

that would suck if it was your birthday out side on that day :(

[WetPooooopie]

3,00 lightning tsrikesin 1min

[WetPooooopie]

shit

[zakartaz]

I remember this storm my umbrella flew off my balcony onto the streets

[Machineguncody]

Man you got an amazing view there. I wish I lived in NYC

[drdoom554]

i doubt that was a vortex. prob the rain shaft and ffdd

[ThePapabear1017]

Too much moving around.

[7249xxl]

wheres the tor and wheres the nado lol no ofense but i dont see it any hwo i can hear it you know low base vibrations any how nice vid thanks for showing a window ful if rain and hail :P

[greenappleman7]

I'm pretty sure that is hail. Nice capture! It was incredible that NYC got multiple tornadoes in one year

[MegaBelievers]

@greenappleman7 That's because Fenton and Terry Jones held a "Burn the Quran Day" on Sept 11, 2010. So there was a punishment sent many times. It could of been worse, and because there are many innocents in New York, that is why the Storm was not so bad as what Allah would of done much worse.

[greenappleman7]

@MegaBelievers Whoever held a "Burn the Quran Day" on Sept 11, 2010 is sick and twisted. And if there I was divine being then I sure would be pissed

[MegaBelievers]

@greenappleman7 yup i agree.

[darkbreeze9009]

@greenappleman7 totally agere

[MegaBelievers]

@GabKoost That's funny, you are scared!...I would be so nice to have every Muslim take a Vacation to Saudi Arabia and let God (Allah) destroy New York and New Jersey city all together. Too bad there were innocents. The Burning Quran People were saved by the innocents.

[MegaBelievers]

@GabKoost wrote: " fuck off religious freak. Religions are responsible for the worst wars and horrors in the world. Go preach somewhere else."

No actually Religion was brought to mankind by every Prophet to establish peace and understanding, and to worship the "one" (illah) God (Allah). Those who cause mischief in the land will be chastised on the Day of Judgement and in this life. Those who do righteousness will be rewarded on the Day of Requittal. EVIL is caused by "mankind".

[MegaBelievers]

@GabKoost God (Allah) does not put evil in us. Evil or Good is what we choose. If we choose evil then we get Hell. If we choose good then we are rewarded with Paradise.

[MegaBelievers]

@GabKoost The Sustanance (Food, etc), that is provided by God will only last for a short while. You will live throughout your appoined time as it was written when you were in your mother's womb and then die. Warnings and signs are bestowed upon this generation after the last seal of Prophet hood. Only obvious chatisments were made while Prophets requested the chastisment for disbelievers. Now it is an observation for the Angels and God, as you have seen in the video above proves God's anger.

[MegaBelievers]

@GabKoost Those who desire this wordly life will suffer a chasitsement so painful.

We as mankind should strive to give Charity, pray for repentence of our sins, and worship the creator God (Allah)of Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammad (peace be upon them). God (Allah) is the most oft-forgiving and most merciful.

[MegaBelievers]

@GabKoost Peace and Blessing be upon you!

[MegaBelievers]

@MegaBelievers AND those who disobeyed the Prophets and the Books, they were Chastised. That storm was just a warning.

[mrkos87]

its rain guys, isn't that obvious?

[badboi787]

LOOK AT THE TREEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :O

[MsPysanky]

The hail, and the white cloud surrounding your windows...yah...your apt. was inside the storm.

[Aidenhakk]

I know where you live! You live by the court street movie place downtown/barnes and nobles. LOL I think I might know you in real life

[nimpo46]

everywhere you turn, there's just another window!! :)

[Mimi10283]

THAT POPCORN SOUND IS DEFINITELY HAIL!!! LOL

[ChaseThatTornado67]

scary

[RINGOTVHD]

Hey, did you catch the storm we had tonight here in NY (Oct 11, 2010) between 8:20 to 8:54 LOL

This weather is going crazy.

The same storm happened again.

I tried to get footage, but its night time and it was to dangerous to film.

For some reason I think these storms are going to get worse.

[82Nikkis]

Great video...We get that shiz here all the time in Ohio. I live by the border of Michigan, we had an EF4 tornado right by me, over the summer.

[Tahreya]

thats exactly what happened near my house it was so much rain for less than ten minutes then the tornado was gone

[Thrashrul]

heart of the storm i would say was in queens around middle village and forest hills. we got ALOT of trees so unfortuatly i couldnt film it.

[bigkrisp]

We missed the heart of the storm in Manhattan...But it was still intense.....I was Uptown when it happen check my video out....

[madrigal212]

THIS IS CRAZY

[weres8131]

this storm is called a microburst

[potatoemonger47]

@mattsherr2 im not tryin to be all like i know more than u or any thing, but I just thought I'd say something that came to mind when i read your comment-you said this wasent a tornado becuase there was no focused destruction-no single, straight line. But im gonna point out that during the apex of the storm in this video, you couldent see a damn thing. the camera was just filming a solid white barrier out the window, so, that piece of evidence really wasent enough to say that it wasent a tornado.

[talvalithan]

@potatoemonger47 Search for "Tornado Hits Hebrew Home at Riverdale" on youtube. 20 seconds in, it shows security surveillance videos of the tornado. All you can see is a white barrier before the trees fall over. Maybe when it comes to weak, rain wrapped tornadoes, there's not much difference. Maybe the only difference is damage indicative of circular winds but that's it. Though on the riverdale video, at 39/40 seconds it looks like you can barely make out a tornado on the right.

[mattsherr2]

@potatoemonger47 What I should've said was "no single, straight line of physical destruction, discernible by ground damage" - look at videos from tornadoes hitting neighborhoods in the Midwest. You'll see one long line of damage - evidence of the tornadoes path. In NYC, the damage was spread across many miles - no tornado is many miles wide. The largest ever measured was just under 1 mile wide. An F5+ (320MPH) in Oklahoma, 1999. The "white barrier" was actually super-heavy rain blowing sideways.

[mattsherr2]

Just to clear all this up - I live in Kansas City. We would consider this a typical Spring time storm. At best, it's a micro burst. Heavy winds, even 100+ (if that's truly the case), doesn't automatically mean it's a tornado. Now, to someone who is not used to this weather, it would probably seem crazy, scary, awesome, terrifying, etc. It's all relative. And yes, the sound you heard was most certanily hail - no larger than pea sized. Your windows are made to handle it, though. Neat video.

[jujumediazone]

@mattsherr2 I love this response. I kept insisting that what they experienced was just a severe downdraft and microburt activity. Even after the weather "experts" said that it was a tornado, I still refused to believe that given all the video I carefully looked at.

[mattsherr2]

@jujumediazone I simply don't want people to have a false sense of what a tornado is like. This was a mild storm in comparison to a tornado - again, relative to what New Yorkers are used to, this was a major storm. But there's no debris indicating TORNADO strength destruction. That requires consistent, straight line, focused destruction, which didn't occur. Weak structures / tree fail all the time in heavy wind - and that's what happened. Not a tornado. At least not in this video. Still neat!

[talvalithan]

@mattsherr2 @mattsherr2 It was a really weak tornado though and the microburst actually did a lot more damage. Also the tornado was completely rain wrapped so would video footage of it be much different? I see storm videos from where the tornado supposedly touched down and from outside areas looking exactly the same to me- windy and 0 visibility. Seems that the only difference is what type of damage left over really. What do you think?

[mattsherr2]

@talvalithan Tough to say. Statistically, very few tornadoes are actually rain-wrapped, b/c the vortex is at the left-rear (bottom left quadrant) of the supercell & the rain has already passed. No doubt this has many characteristics of a tornado, especially the "circular winds" visible in the videos. But remember the terrain - giant buildings & narrow street passages - the wind will act in totally unpredictable patterns. That seems to me to explain the circulation seen in all these videos.

[mattsherr2]

@talvalithan One other observation - I've checked out lots of these videos, and one thing remains constant - the winds lasted for many minutes in each (four - five minutes). In a tornado: Winds don't hit until the tornado hits - tornado comes through, super strong winds hit for 30 - 45 seconds, MAYBE 60 in an F4 or F5, but never 5 minutes. That's why it's called the calm "before" the storm - and not often mentioned, the calm immediately "after" the storm. What are your thoughts?

[talvalithan]

@mattsherr2 NWS confirmed a 2 mile touchdown in both boroughs. Yet it didn't follow the normal characteristics like you said, and in such a large city, no one got a video of anything but an ominous looking rain curtain and storm winds. I thought tornadoes couldn't touch down in the middle of a gust front. There's a staten island video of a funnel and it appears to form at the front of the storm under the shelf cloud that's approaching. I'm just a hobbyist so... I don't get it.

[dean89]

was that hail?

[BlackwingMaster117]

i was in the whirl of rain of the tornado it waz cool

[BlackwingMaster117]

i was in the whirl of rain of the tornado

[hamnahiman]

Wow!

[hebneh]

I think that noise must've been hail hitting the windows, even though it wasn't visible in the heavy rain.

Personally I've never seen rain that hard, but there are other videos like this on YouTube where a storm with high winds completely obscures the camera's view. It's like the cloud has actually extended down to the ground. Maybe that's what's happening.

[BillionYears]

Corner unit? Nice

[jonathanDTV]

dang you have an awsome view form your apartment

wich i lived in new york :P

PS

i love when that happends i get alot of this type of weather iin el paso this time of year :p

[letseeitplease]

20th floor wow thats up there ,,, i just had to come watch this again, i like it,

this was excellent video of your storm, hey maybe around christmas you could make another video of the lights christmas lights from this same windows,

maybe some snow on christmas eve,,,, i just sub to your channel,, take care,

[ChaseThatTornado67]

HOLY SHIT! the winds were around 70-80 where u were

[SuperNickxX]

@ChaseThatTornado67 The winds were over 120 miles per hour 

[ChaseThatTornado67]

@SuperNickxX yep 100-120

[onefugowie]

that is a pretty good storm i think its a Micro Burst

[imortalism]

That was pretty sick. I love how at around 2:30 the clouds rolled in.

[kennydviet]

Tornado would f&%K nyc,cuz we get hurricanes and tornadoes here in AL.

[Hypercam2vids]

@jonesbones638 You're obviously an ignorant jackass. New York is a tough city and all but it's something that rarely ever happens in NY. A city where buildings and skyscrapers dominate it, then a tornado comes and people just don't see it coming then they panic. Be a bit more reasonable next time, obviously you're trash talking cuz you don't have a damn sense of logic.

[thatrik]

@jonesbones638 Nobody is trying to act tough, or is acting scared. I, speaking for myself at least, was just impressed by the weather; the way it came out of nowhere, so fast, and then was gone almost an instant later. Aside from it's destructive force, of which there was a decent amount in some areas, it was just a sight to behold, since weather like this is an incredible rarity in NY.

But, thanks for coming out, and for your insightful contribution? You are a disgrace to the real Jon Jones.

[goldeneye007662]

@jonesbones638 Real disaster strike? I'm assuming you're under 9, because anyone over that age will have heard of 9.11.01 Scared of wind and rain? When what experts call a tornado hits 8 million people and even kills some, yeah, you would be afraid too.

[elvisreviews]

@jonesbones638 most of us never experienced weather like this before, personally i usually film incoming storms from outside but i skipped this one due to the severity.

[SuperNickxX]

@jonesbones638 I was there when this disaster happened. And as thatrik said, no one was trying to act tough. I really have to admit for me i have never seen a disaster lik dis in New york but it was really suprising for this to happen here and when i was outside in the rain pouring i was terrified. the wind was pushinq me everywere i couldnt see a thing because all the rain. i didnt know were to go. so its mostly that you have never seen a thing like this happen to you, mayb u shouldnt b talkin

[cenapecs77]

@jonesbones638 I agree. There was no tornado. I can't tell you how many times this happened in the past and New Yorkers didn't flinch!

[thatrik]

@mimsings thanks!

[AJ94istify]

@thatrik No man i was actually on the ground with some friends n we actually saw the hail falling in the streets

[thatrik]

@letseeitplease i'm on the 20th floor

@volnick1986 nope, no hail, just rain.... i think...? i heard some people say it was hail, but I'm pretty sure it was just heeeaaavvyyyyy rain

[lilpuppet721]

@thatrik that sounds like hail to me

[alexmusicgraffity]

@lilpuppet721 No, its popcorn

[xCelestialWisdomx]

@thatrik No, actually there was hail. I was caught in that huge downpour and got hit in the face a a lot trying to find shelter. The pieces weren't as big, but I could tell it wasn't rain. They were big enough to tell the difference.

[ironhammer94]

@thatrik that's hail you dope!

[emailmemrstara]

Its amazing how fast that thing moved.. the EMFs from the lightning are crazy to!!

[owimevil]

lol i was totally there at video time 3:40. that rain just poured!! crazy and then it stopped like 4 minutes later -.- i got soaked even with my umbrella

[AJ94istify]

@owimevil no umbrella wouldve helped in a storm like that

[letseeitplease]

excellent video, i liked it,,,,,, how many flights up are you when you took this video?

[chrissysboy714]

WHOA! I start the vid.. speakers go wackoooo gawd... couldnt hear a thing at first... i think it wuz da wind or my laptop

[Marlonasuar]

Great Video! Amazing how the tornado ate up the whole city.

[volnick1986]

at 3:28 was that hale hitting the window? 

[shadapple]

@volnick1986 hail

[created1983]

cool video. thanks

[unknowndude941]

i was doing my hw when all of the sudden, heavy rain came down with strong winds. i heard what sounded like a whooshing sound and loud thuds outside my house. my family checked it out, walked a few blocks. amazing that a city bus was flipped upsidedown, luckily had no people inside. pieces of roofing were everywhere, large tress knocked down.

[tappnthekeg]

If not a tornado, then the verge of one, kinda like tropical storm turning into a hurricane

[60bamz1]

Wow! Amazing.

[lydianewcomb]

Great video of the storm coming in and a great view. (Btw, your place seems well insulated!) I've been watching a lot of these and there is hail, whiteouts of rain, horizontal winds and some people even sense popping in their ears. Tornado? Sure seems like it to me.