Yesterday afternoon, a strong bow echo made it’s way through northern New Jersey, Staten Island and Brooklyn before reaching Long Island. It obviously wasn’t the strongest storm, but given that it hit the most densely populated tract of land in the country, there were many reports of damage and an unlucky soul lost his life when a tree fell on the car he was in. There is an excellent gallery of some of the damage in Brooklyn over at CNN.
Also yesterday, there was a tornado outbreak in the Ohio Valley, starting in central Ohio and moving into West Virginia. The hardest hit area was Athens, Ohio, in the southeastern part of the state. A local high school and newspaper were struck, including a soccer game, which had a tornado pass over the field. NBC4 out of Columbus has the details.
Lastly is this picture, where we see some hail from a storm that hit eastern Kansas earlier this week. Not much more to add, outside of “look out below!”