On Saturday morning, a rare tornado warning was issued for parts of New York City, including Brooklyn and Queens.
The tornado touched down in the beachfront neighborhood of Breezy Point, New York in Queens. Fire fighters responded to the scene and reported downed power lines and damaged cars among other possible damage.
Along with thunderstorms, The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for Queens and Brooklyn. The tornado may have threatened large area airports like LaGuardia and JFK.
Hundreds of people received emergency text messages saying that there was a tornado warning for their area.
Hundreds of people in the area received text warnings about the tornado.
The warning was in effect through 11:30 a.m.
Weather channels showed parts of Brooklyn and Queens that had tornado warnings.
Pictures of the possible tornado started making its way around Twitter.
This amazing photo was taken from Coney Island.
This amazing photo was taken from Brooklyn by Mike Abrams.
This was another possible photo of the tornado that was posted to Twitter by Simon Fong.
Another amazing tornado photo on Twitter by Joey Mure.
This possible tornado photo was taken on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn.
These videos of the tornado in Breezy Point, New York were posted to Youtube:
