{"id":1020491,"date":"2026-08-24T06:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1020491\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T06:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:46:18","slug":"rare-tornado-touched-down-on-long-island-during-nyc-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1020491\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Tornado Touched Down on Long Island During NYC Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bloomberg\">The National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado touched down at Long Island\u2019s Atlantic Beach on Thursday evening amid powerful storms in the New York City area.<\/p>\n<p>No serious injuries were reported, but the tornado forced the temporary closing of the Silver Point and Sun &amp; Surf Beach Clubs after damage to cabanas. It was the first confirmed tornado in Nassau County since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf2a\ufe0f TORNADO HITS LONG ISLAND<\/p>\n<p>Incredible video from Donny Doc \u201cDoc Don Don\u201d who captured a waterspout moving onshore and causing significant damage at the Atlantic Beach Club in Nassau County this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Extensive damage has been reported at the club. The National Weather\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/zGI1br1kgb<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Masco (@MikeMasco) August 21, 2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRadar data, video of the waterspout coming onshore, and damage reports in the vicinity of the Sun and Surf Beach club in Atlantic Beach allow for confirmation of a tornadic touchdown in this area,\u201d the weather service said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>A separate tornado touched down near Dover, Delaware, Thursday, striking two hotels along the Dupont Highway according to local news reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.claimsjournal.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Tornado-on-Long-Island-map_Bloomberg.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-339734\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Tornado-on-Long-Island-map_Bloomberg-580x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"390\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain and thunderstorms engulfed much of the East Coast Thursday, flooding roads and triggering ground stops at major airports. Hundreds of flights were canceled and some departures were delayed by hours.<\/p>\n<p>In New York, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman declared a state of emergency and activated the county\u2019s Emergency Operations Center as storms intensified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not something that you plan for, tornadoes form in an instant,\u201d Blakeman, a Republican who\u2019s running for New York Governor, said in a press conference Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>About 50 cabanas were damaged, he said. There is no estimate for the cost of the repairs.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/subscribe-background-580x250.jpg\" alt=\"newsletter\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Want to stay up to date?<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest insurance news<br \/>sent straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado touched down at Long Island\u2019s Atlantic Beach on Thursday evening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1020492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,11366,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,82712,7925,8088,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1020491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-damage","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-property-insurance","tag-storm","tag-tornado","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117149147982041457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020491","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=1020491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}