The Tulsa metropolitan area will see heavy rain, with the possibility of damaging hail and high winds Saturday afternoon and evening, according to the National Weather Service and News on 6 Chief Meteorologist Travis Meyer.The storms will arrive in the late afternoon or early evening, perhaps as early as 5:00 p.m. but more likely around [...]
In New York, the first tornado struck Breezy Point on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens. The second, stronger tornado hit the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, around 10 minutes after the first.Videos taken by bystanders in New York showed a funnel cloud sucking up water, then sand, and then small pieces of buildings.Later Saturday, Meteorologist Andy [...]
The increasing frequency of the kind of severe weather that uproots trees and rips roofs from Ontario homes is also forcing changes in the insurance industry. Home insurance rates are likely to rise and firms have already processed hundreds of millions of dollars due to hail, water and structural damage this summer in the province, [...]
Update 9:53 p.m. The town seems to have escaped the worst of severe weather that spawned some tornados in New York and violent storms in Southern Connecticut. Some thunder and lightning was evident in town as seen by the attached photos courtesy of the Cleaves family. Earlier Story The National Weather Service has forecasted severe [...]
(FOX19) – Thunderstorms are popping up in the northern part of the FOX19 viewing area and moving quickly, effecting several counties in the Tri-state. Wind gusts are expected to reach 60 miles per hour with a chance for small to moderate hail. Thunderstorms are expected to last through the evening hours. If threatening weather should [...]
Radar image of thunderstorm at 3:07 p.m., just as it passed downtown Richmond (RadarScope) A severe thunderstorm with hail and damaging winds ripped through Richmond, Virginia area betweem 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. Winds gusted to at least 60 mph and there have been multiple reports of downed trees. As of 4:00 p.m., over 145,000 …
