Worse Than Our Last Tornado

Should the NWS declare a tornado through the heart of Brooklyn, I feel confident stating that it was a stronger tornado than the Brooklyn tornado of August 2007 that tore through my neighborhood, Bay Ridge, and Borough Park around 6 in the morning that day. I'm basing this on the pictures I've been seeing. Despite the drama of the fallen tree images, it is the street lamp and signal knockdowns that are indicating this. If our August 8th storm was shifting from an F0 to an F1, I would think this was an F1 shifting to an F2 at times. It also hit a more densely built, older section of Brooklyn which I think, if not actually doing more damage, contributed to the perception that it did. I wish I had saved the base radial velocity doppler image, where I clearly saw the blue and brown signature coming in off the harbor towards Park Slope.