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Powerful tornado in New York (17 pics + text)
On the night of Friday, September 17, New York was attacked by a powerful storm. According to eyewitnesses, the sky has become green. Hurricane winds felled trees and overturned cars.
The only victim of this sudden storms and tornadoes caused her two became 30-year-old Alina Levakis, a resident of Pennsylvania, on the machine where a tree fell.
A few minutes before the tragedy that occurred in the New York borough of Queens, a woman with her husband changed places. The husband was not injured.
The National Meteorological Service of the United States suggest that during a sudden storm in the city two tornadoes passed.
The tornado was part of a dynamic storm, which reached a speed of 200 km / h.
In several parts of the city damaged buildings and power lines.
As a result of the storm most affected areas in Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens.
In Queens gusts broke and uprooted trees, lifted into the air with garbage containers.
In Brooklyn, the wind had overturned two tractor trailer, resulting in 5 people were injured.
More than a thousand trees felled in the area of Central Park.
The head of administration of the city park Adrian Benepe said that many storm damaged trees have to dig.
A gust of wind broke the spire of one of the Catholic churches.
As a result of the disaster about 30 thousand. People were without electricity.
Since 1950, New York for the ninth time survived the tornado hit, and this year it is the second case.
The storm moved from Staten Island across New York Harbor, and then the curve length of 22 km from Brooklyn, towards the borough of Queens.
The only victim of this sudden storms and tornadoes caused her two became 30-year-old Alina Levakis, a resident of Pennsylvania, on the machine where a tree fell.
A few minutes before the tragedy that occurred in the New York borough of Queens, a woman with her husband changed places. The husband was not injured.
The National Meteorological Service of the United States suggest that during a sudden storm in the city two tornadoes passed.
The tornado was part of a dynamic storm, which reached a speed of 200 km / h.
In several parts of the city damaged buildings and power lines.
As a result of the storm most affected areas in Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens.
In Queens gusts broke and uprooted trees, lifted into the air with garbage containers.
In Brooklyn, the wind had overturned two tractor trailer, resulting in 5 people were injured.
More than a thousand trees felled in the area of Central Park.
The head of administration of the city park Adrian Benepe said that many storm damaged trees have to dig.
A gust of wind broke the spire of one of the Catholic churches.
As a result of the disaster about 30 thousand. People were without electricity.
Since 1950, New York for the ninth time survived the tornado hit, and this year it is the second case.
The storm moved from Staten Island across New York Harbor, and then the curve length of 22 km from Brooklyn, towards the borough of Queens.
