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.
Damn you were lucky. I was at the beach when it happened and since I was where the sand was at, they felt like needles once the wind started punching them towards me
Ikr but apparently skyscrapers and tall buildings and buildings over like 6 stories whithstand tornadoes due to the foundation and heavy materials. Also the heavier a building the easier it is to survive a tornado. They were more safe higher up than those smaller buildings below
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.
There was a tornado atleast not as strong as to reach the ground it was more of a mini hurricane like a tropical depression but in some places of ny a tornado did touch land
This a truly unique video, but when you were capturing footage of the storm you could've gotten seriously injured or possibly killed from the hail or acceleration in the wind which could've shattered your window, man. But anyways, this is great footage.
That was the thunderstorm that produce a tornado; not the tornado itself. You can not see the tornado, cuz it was somewhere else in the city. If you look at Wikipedia, there was actually an EF1 tornado in Queen/Brooklyn in New York City with one fatality.
Bionic Samurai10 this is NYC AND ITS NOT A TORNADOE, I DIDN'T SEE NO TORNADOE IN 7 YEARS AGO in NYC and I was born in Brooklyn but I didn't see it , I think it was a tropical storm
This is a strong outflow caused by a pulse storm off to the right of where the camera can see. At this point the storm cell had matured to a point where it was topping out at maybe 60, or 70 thousand feet where warmer air rapidly cools, and falls back to the ground. When it hits the ground it pushes outward like this causing winds moving away from the storm at speeds sometimes reaching 100 miles an hour.
Man, you guys get hit with everything! Hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, terrorist attacks....shows just how tough New Yorkers are! I'm in Toronto, we have the most boring weather on the planet. Only once, back in the 50's, did we have the tail end of hurricane hazel. Other then that? Biggest issue we face is drought and killer humidity in the summer, and deep cold, but rarely much snow, all winter, yet we're famous for bitching about the weather anyways. We're in a geographically protected area (yes, we're on Lake Ontario, but we have the Toronto islands to protect the harbour) so we hardly ever see weather like you guys get. You should see it here when we see the first few flakes of snow in November/December, every acts like the world is coming to an end, it's really quite pathetic!
@@fleerrineperk1091 Where do u get your info. There were at least 10 confirmed tornadoes in the past 10 years. Millions in damage n a handful of ppl actually died. Sandy was a major hurricane when it hit NY. How can u say NY never get hit when they r confirmed n all over the internet. Look them up. How can u say it can never happen? That's like saying California cant get hit wit a Hurricane. Anything can happen just like NY got hit wit Earthquakes. Look that up too.
@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?
Never stand by the windows! Especially when your that high up the force of the rain and anything else is more higher than if you were on the first floor
Well if iCyclone is leaving comments it’s obviously a good video. 😉 I love watching weather. I live in the middle of the white mountains in NH growing up and I definitely miss the sounds of the thunder there. It was always super loud and it echoed off the mountains. Thank you for sharing!!
Wow this is so cool. I would of been doing the same thing!! Not sure if it's an office or your apt but that must be awesome to have that view everyday!! I saw another video where it was filming towards the street and the window was busted out of one of the shops. Pretty crazy storm. Only remember it because 9/16 is my birthday. Awesome video !
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.
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 RU-vid 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.
I could finally breathe deeply at 4:02! For almost 2 minutes, you had me scared, because I don't know, but I believe you were pretty close to that window. How high up were you by the way? That was scary, but it didn't sound like a tornado. If it was, it was rain-wrapped. I was more worried about the hail.
Looks like this was filmed from the Brooklyn Law School Feil Hall building, which is a student residence, and filmed from/on the SW-facing side of the building. (per Google Maps Data and triangulating certain landmarks, Court House Apartments and NY Sports Club directly to the South, Piers off to the West, lower Manhattan to the NW)
@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 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.
did you choose the word "tornado" to get more clicks, or because you thought it was one? Just asking... look at the way the rain falls, and the strong wind are typical signs for a so called DOWNBURST.
What I heard about is that storm produced wind gust to 201kph in Aussie conversion. 201kph wind gust is related to Category 3 to 4 tropical cyclone. That is very destructive storm you have had in NYC from very severe squall line.
@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.
i cant understand why people are standing near windows in such storms.. imagine if it got broken.. the cameraman would have thrown out of the window from so high...
@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 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.
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,
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.
@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?
Yeah it does until he/she covers it up with his/or her finger. I had to stop listening, because the audio was so distorted, and I don't mean that it's because he/she was by a window that was closed. I hope I can make it til the end of the video, because I'm hoping he/or she takes his/her finger off the mic. (oh and yes, I'm totally blind. That's why I'm using the language I'm using. I'm also typing this using text-to-speech software that tells me what I'm typing, so I can correct any mistakes as I go along. I still proofread my comments just in case I missed any.)
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
@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!
i know this was not a tornado but whoever say tornado can't pass a city look in okc in 1999, nashville in 1998, and tuscaloosa/birmingham in 2011 if you didn't believe it
Ok for mia gauci i wasn't even know everything but i knew that tornado can't even drill big city look at the fact dfw texas 2012 tornado tuscaloosa-birmingham alabama in 2011 okc in 1999 nashville in 1998 moore in 2013 and many more that approved tornado can drill through city
There is a tornado, and then there is a funnel, the funnel is the black thing that comes from the sky. there can be a EF0 to EF5 this was probably a EF0
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
Also, Lightning shoots out electromagnetic waves which will ALWAYS interfere with your magnetically operated camera......it happens in all lightning videos. :)
no, thats because itd a rolling shutter. most cameras use rolling shutter which means lightning looks bad on rolling shutters. on global shutter it wont do that
@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
@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.
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
