Tropical Storm — Southern Queens, New York
August 4, 2020 · NOAA Storm Events record
Event narrative (NOAA)
A 60 yr old man was killed in the Briarwood section of Queens near the intersection of 84th Drive and 143rd Street near Smedley Street from a tree falling on his vehicle at 1204 pm LST.�� ||JFK International Airport reported a maximum sustained wind of 51 mph at 1231 pm LST and a peak wind gust of 70 mph at 1225 pm LST. ||These type of winds across the borough resulted in numerous trees and tree limbs being downed, power outages, damages to homes and automobiles, and disruption to mass transit. The NYC Office of Emergency Management reported 68,074 power outages across the borough. NYCEM has calculated property damages of $11,006,454 in the borough.||Water levels slightly exceeded the minor flood level of 7.5 ft above MLLW at the Jamaica Bay at Inwood tidal gauge Tuesday evening, but the
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.