{"id":1014996,"date":"2026-08-21T13:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1014996\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T13:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:45:21","slug":"video-rare-tornado-touches-down-on-new-yorks-long-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1014996\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Rare tornado touches down on New York&#8217;s Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-text\">A rare tornado touched down on Long Beach, New York, on Long Island Thursday evening as a line of powerful thunderstorms blasted the region with torrential rain and flash flooding.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\"><strong>LONG BEACH, N.Y. \u2014<\/strong> A rare tornado touched down on Long Beach, New York, on Long Island Thursday evening as a line of powerful thunderstorms blasted the region with torrential rain and flash flooding.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed that a tornado hit the City of Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/long-beach-storm-damage.jpg\" alt=\"Tornado damage City of Long Beach\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Tornado damage City of Long Beach\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-text\"><strong> (City of Long Beach, New York Facebook \/ FOX Weather)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Video shot from the Rockaways in Queens showed a long funnel cloud over the Atlantic Ocean, what&#8217;s called a waterspout, roaring ashore on the Village of Atlantic Beach portion of Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The Sun and Surf Beach Club said the twister destroyed numerous buildings and cabanas.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Nassau County officials said no one was seriously hurt.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">This is the first tornado to hit Nassau County since 2021, according to the NWS.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The FOX Forecast Center said only 41 tornadoes have hit Long Island since 1950.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rare tornado touched down on Long Beach, New York, on Long Island Thursday evening as a line&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1014997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5313,3878,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1014996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-severe-weather","tag-tornadoes","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117133806751504463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1014997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}