Re: 125mph Macroburst and EF1 Tornado(100mph,4 mile path) in Queens,EF0 Tornado(80mph) in Brookl
Posted by Fred on 9/18/2010, 4:57 pm
This is what some someone wrote on a local messagebpard about Hazel and the 113mph winds.Could have very well happened this way


" I d'ont so much doubt the 113 mph winds but I attribute them to the incoming cold front which Hazel helped to whip thru. In all likelihood that cold front produced similar T-storms to Thursday and the winds at the Battery were almost certainly from a microburst or a tornado. By the time Hazel got to the NYC lattitude it was much weaker than the cat 4 it made landfall with and quite far away with the center headed toward Buffalo. The cold front drawing into NYC that day was a very powerful one plowing into an unusually warm tropical airmass and it had the same strong upper level winds with high mixing to the ground like Thursday. NYC would have had severe weather that day with or without Hazel but Hazel helped bring a real trop airmas up the coast and likely amplified the severe weather. I would imagine the squall line that developed off that cold front was a lot longer N-S than Friday's CF and probably had very intense storms, possibly a derecho, moving across Pa on south so that the damage was a lot more widespread too. Hazel moved northwest at 50mph and was still a cat 1 hurricane in western NY about 9-10 hours after it made landfall."
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125mph Macroburst and EF1 Tornado(100mph,4 mile path) in Queens,EF0 Tornado(80mph) in Brooklyn - Fred, 9/18/2010, 8:23 am
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