This page documents all the tornadoes that touched down in the United States in August to September 2007. Tornadoes in the month of January are given with their Fujita Scale intensity while all tornadoes from February and on are given with their Enhanced Fujita Scale intensity. This is because the scale was changed on February 1 due to the National Weather Service implementing a more accurate way to classify tornadoes.
Note: January tornadoes were rated using the old Fujita scale, but are included in the chart above by matching the F rating to the related EF scale rating.[1]
The first of two early morning tornadoes to strike near New York City. According to the National Weather Service, the tornado first touched down in Staten Island at approximately 6:22 am EST in the vicinity of St. Austins Place in the Livingston - Randall Manor area, before moving east, with additional damage occurring in the Tompkinsville area. Most of the damage in Staten Island was to trees. Damage is unknown.
9 Injuries The second of two early morning tornadoes to strike near New York City. The tornado touched down near The Narrows tidal strait, just north of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, in Brooklyn, at Bay Ridge at 6:32 am EST. It continued on an east-northeast path across 68th Street between Third and Fourth Avenues, damaging the roofs of 11 homes. The storm continued to move east-northeast into Leif Ericson Park Square, where severe damage to trees occurred, and where winds blew out a 15-foot-tall (4.6 m) stained glass window valued at $300,000 at the nearby Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church. It then crossed the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. The tornado touched down farther northeast with scattered tree damage along Sixth Avenue. Damage from the tornado is estimated at $20 million.
Brief touchdown, a chimney was blown off a house that also had several windows blown out. The house also received significant roof damage. A mobile home in the same area also received significant roof damage and was shifted off its foundation. Caused $10,000 in damages.
