Authorities: 2 Tornadoes Struck NYC During Storm

In all parts of the city, witnesses saw the destruction compared stories - peeled off roofs, uprooted street signs and shop windows blown out, heavy tree trunks cut in half, a van was parked up their feet in the air.
So it was not a surprise when he decided to weather forecasters said Friday evening that the storm barreled across a wide swath of Brooklyn and Queens day I was born in the two earlier hurricanes and macroburst fierce with wind speed up to 125 miles per hour.
What was surprising, and forecasters said, is that only one person was killed.
"It's practically a miracle considering the number of people affected by this," he said Kyle Struckmann, and meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
The hurricanes and in accordance with ninth and 10 to reach New York City since 1950, the Weather Service.
One of the rockets hit Struckmann Brooklyn at 17:33 on Thursday, with winds up to 80 miles per hour, and carved on its way from the north-eastern slope Park. And the second was Queen of 17:42, with winds up to 100 miles per hour, and travel 4 miles from the Flushing section to the north of Bayside miles.
It was the second storm, which cut the trees and scattered them like bowling pins and bring down power lines, crushed cars, including in Queens, killing the woman, according to the National Weather Service. The yen Levakis in a parked car with her husband, Billy Levakis. The couple, Pennsylvania switch seats only in the car, said a former business partner, Peter Marcus. Billy survived Levakis.
Macroburst packed more punch, said Brian Ciemnecki, and another for the weather. Started to spread 8 miles long and 5 miles wide, in the middle section of the village of Queens, and ended in Forest Hills. Macroburst and is a perfect storm of high winds, which was hurt by the storm.
"It was linked to the vast majority of the damage with macroburst", said Ciemnecki.
Had originally told officials that the microburst hit the city, but later corrected that to say he was macroburst, because it was more than 2 1/2-miles long.
The authorities said strong winds caused damage in Staten Island.
The storm was part of the line that stretched across much of north-east before completing its journey in New York City during the evening rush hour in minutes. And caught virtually everyone by surprise, including passengers on their way home and parents take their children from school after activities.
"There are many stories of people who were very close to the exposure to a big tree and killed, but fortunately there was only one," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday. "This one was really tragic."
Population afflicted with shock sift through debris Friday, teams worked to the benefit of the restoration of power in the neighborhoods dark out. The number of customers without power peaked at 37000, but this gradually improved Friday. It was about 14,000 customers, mostly in Queens, with no power late on Friday.
Edison said it expects consolidated capacity to restore the most customers from Saturday night, and all services by Sunday night.
On a cluster of Brooklyn hit hard by the 1890s brownstones in the neighborhood of Bedford, Stuyvesant, the storm swept away parts of the roofs of at least six houses.
Has been flooded by water until one of the four-storey rowhouse walls marked by Xs Friday with a big black - in the sense that it had to be demolished. In the yard behind, and the development of accumulated debris, including parts of the roof, gazebo, and broke every tree fell there from two houses away.
"Look at this," said the owner of the charming Hatcher, standing in the backyard.
Referring to the upper floor, and said: "No one can sleep there, and there are no limits, and you can see the sky."
Building management, "said Commissioner Robert Limandri the city received more than 60 reports of buildings with structural damage possible. Officials had ordered residents out of some houses most affected in Brooklyn.
The ministry said the city's parks was still assessing the damage tree, and warned that cleaning it was likely for days. Parks Commissioner, warned passers-by would be careful walking under the trees that may have broken branches.
The line of storms began its work in the West. Was confirmed at least seven tornadoes in the state of Ohio, where storms overturned mobile homes, and several people were injured and damaged part of the campus of Ohio State University. A small tornado also touched down in southern New Jersey, knocking on trees and damaging two houses.