{"id":439442,"date":"2026-08-21T14:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T14:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439442\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T14:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T14:34:12","slug":"video-rare-tornado-touches-down-on-new-yorks-long-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439442\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Rare tornado touches down on New York&#8217;s Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-text\">A rare tornado touched down on Long Beach, New York, on Long Island Thursday evening as a line of powerful thunderstorms blasted the region with torrential rain and flash flooding.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">LONG BEACH, N.Y. \u2014 A rare tornado touched down on Long Beach, New York, on Long Island Thursday evening as a line of powerful thunderstorms blasted the region with torrential rain and flash flooding.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed that a tornado hit the City of Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/long-beach-storm-damage.jpg\" alt=\"Tornado damage City of Long Beach\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Tornado damage City of Long Beach\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-text\"> (City of Long Beach, New York Facebook \/ FOX Weather)<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Video shot from the Rockaways in Queens showed a long funnel cloud over the Atlantic Ocean, what&#8217;s called a waterspout, roaring ashore on the Village of Atlantic Beach portion of Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The Sun and Surf Beach Club said the twister destroyed numerous buildings and cabanas.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Nassau County officials said no one was seriously hurt.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">This is the first tornado to hit Nassau County since 2021, according to the NWS.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The FOX Forecast Center said only 41 tornadoes have hit Long Island since 1950.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rare tornado touched down on Long Beach, New York, on Long Island Thursday evening as a line&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132,4694,634,33650],"class_list":["post-439442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-new-york","tag-severe-weather","tag-tornadoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}