{"id":820962,"date":"2026-08-21T12:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820962\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T12:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:04:09","slug":"storms-bring-heavy-rain-flash-flood-and-tornado-warnings-to-nyc-long-island-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820962\/","title":{"rendered":"Storms bring heavy rain, flash flood and tornado warnings to NYC, Long Island, New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">The National Weather Service is expected to survey storm damage in Atlantic Beach Friday morning after a possible tornado tore through the area, leaving the Sun and Surf Beach Club heavily damaged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">More than 30 cabanas that had been occupied by over 100 guests were destroyed at the beach club, and it remains unclear when the property will reopen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A spinning column of air and water was spotted Thursday evening in both Atlantic Beach and the eastern Rockaways. The NWS is now investigating whether a waterspout moved onto land in Atlantic Beach, which would classify it as a tornado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Those inside the Sun and Surf described terrifying moments as powerful winds shook the building and sent furniture and debris flying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;The noise was frightening, you could hear the wind, it was extremely violent,&#8221; Sun and Surf board member Richard Accarino said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">One person suffered a minor head injury. First responders searched the damaged area Thursday night to make sure no one was trapped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman is expected to hold a news conference at 8 a.m. Friday with an update on the storm damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">About 2,000 customers on Long Island remained without power early Friday morning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Weather Service is expected to survey storm damage in Atlantic Beach Friday morning after a possible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[348069,23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-820962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-348069","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}