Tornado Near Hicksville, New York

{link » Hicksville High Alumni Newsletter (Sept.08)}

h/t “Buffalo Bob” Casale ’61

“Monday, August 11th ... a little after noon. I was taking my daughter, Dawn, to LaGuardia for a flight back to Augusta. As we were driving West on Northern State [Parkway], the weather got really nasty looking ... big dark clouds, then a tremendous downpour. Just before, Dawn was looking toward Great Neck [on the North Shore of Long Island] and swore she saw a funnel cloud and snapped a picture, but we were too far away to see the result. Within a half hour, that same front was pounding the North Shore nearby to Hicksville [Long Island, New York], and sure enough, the tornado formed.” — Robert “Buffalo Bob” Casale, HHS Class of 1961

I am an alumnus of Hicksville High (Class of 1959) and I have never before heard of a tornado forming anywhere near my hometown.