NWS New York City LSR: New York Stock Exchange Trading Floor Under 3′ Water….4′ Under East River Subway Tunnels…….

October 29th, 2012 at 10:09 pm by under Chad's WLFI Weather Blog 
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
933 PM EDT MON OCT 29 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0927 PM     COASTAL FLOOD    MANHATTAN               40.78N  73.97W
10/29/2012                   NEW YORK           NY   BROADCAST MEDIA

            NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANCE TRADING FLOOR UNDER 3 FEET OF
            WATER.
0900 PM     COASTAL FLOOD    MANHATTAN               40.78N  73.97W
10/29/2012                   NEW YORK           NY   MTA

            4 FEET OF SEAWATER ENTERING SUBWAY TUNNELS UNDER EAST
            RIVER

Significant flooding continues over the coastal Northeast from the ocean & from heavy rainfall.  Flooding from the rainfall is increasing inland, while tremendous snowfall continues to occur from North Carolina to West Virginia & Virginia higher elevations.  Wet snow is mixing with rain in Ohio.

Winds have reportedly gusted to 113 mph at Babylon, New York, 94 mph in Suffolk County, New York. 90 mph Islip, New York & 79 mph at JFK Airport.

Battery Park storm surge record set in the great 1821 hurricane has been broken.  Most storm surge records are breaking.

This storm had a surface pressure to a Category 4, but was a Category 1.  However, it was sort of a hybrid of a Nor’Easter & hurricane (Superstorm) at landfall with a wall of water like a high end Category 4.

Meanwhile, it is now snowing at Columbus, Ohio & over 12″ of snow has fallen near Gatlinburg, Tennessee with up to 16″ of snowfall reported out of West Virginia.

 

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One Response to “NWS New York City LSR: New York Stock Exchange Trading Floor Under 3′ Water….4′ Under East River Subway Tunnels…….”

  1. Deborah Evans-Ham says:
    October 30, 2012 at 5:52 am

    everybody claiming this Hurricane Sandy is a Monster Storm the worst one for the east coast. people have told me that there was one on the east coast called The Perfect Storm around Halloween 1991. please set the record straight

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