SOUTHOLD, Long Island (WABC) — Long Island continues to clean up from wild weather over the weekend and into Monday, with a confirmed tornado on Fishers Island and a road collapse the prompted the closure of Orient Beach State Park. The low-grade EF-1 tornado had estimated wind speeds of 90 miles per hour and was…
Fishers Island tornado upgraded to EF1, National Weather Service says
The tornado that touched down Monday morning on Fishers Island, at the eastern end of the Long Island Sound, was upgraded to an EF1, the next to the lowest category, according to a crew of National Weather Service meteorologists who assessed the site Tuesday. Touching down a quarter mile or so east of Wilderness Point…