The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-09
THE TORNADOS TRICKS.
William A. Eddy Completes
His Report Of the Re
cent Winds.

After a weeks careful work William a.
Eddy has completed his investigation Of
| the wind disturbances of the afternoon of
September 20, when three tornadoes were
thought to have appeared at different
points in New Jersey. Mr.. Eddy finds
there was but one tornado.
1t first manifested its powers In Eaten
town and then jumped two and a half
miles into Red Bank From Red Bank Il
| bounded into the air and Travelled at q
| great height northward across the lower
| bay and Staten Island and across the
Jersey fats in the upper bay without oncs
touching the earth or coming close
enough to cause any damage.
On reaching Greenville, in the lower
section of Jersey City. it swooped down
to the earth again. and after doing some
damage there passed out into Newark
| Bay.
The report will be forwarded to the
| Weather Department as soon as 1t Is writ
ten out. This makes five tornado dis
| turbanees investigated by Mr.. Eddy this
summer a larger number than usual in
a season.
The afternoon of September % presented
| air conditions favorable to the generation
I OIL a E0E1dQO, d4Q t1d OAC
| force and violence did not develop was
fortunate. Tn rome that did appeal was
heavy enough to havedone much damage
| had it struck a thickly buiit-up section
AS 1t was, It's first two drops to the earth
were in farming districts, where the
| buildings are few and the resulting dam
| age proportionately small
At Eatontown, the storm had a width OF
about fifty feet. but this was increased
| to an eighth of am lie In Red Bank.
Of Investigation tornadoes IN this sec
| ton. The one Of September 20 WAS the
| second that has displayed the long track
SO common IN the West. Th comfy other
one howfng this characteristic was the
one which wrecked Cherry Hill in New
Jersey and then 1eaped clear across Man
haitian Island and Brooklyn n landed
again in Woodhaven.
On September 70 the cone-shaped clouds
as It revoIved seemed to try and go to
the northeast, but some current In the
upper air dragged 1t back and kept II
pointed west of north. When the funnel
left the upper air and reached the earth
il started to the east OF north, but on as
cending was drawn back to the old gem
eraf direction.
what the rotary motion was cannot be
said, although it was far in excess Of
hurricane force, TO miles an hour. The
spinning motion attending was greater
than this. of course. The forward motion
seems TO have been about twenty-five te
twenty-five miles an hour, as it took tHe
storm Just am hour to travel frern Ea-
/ tontown to Greenville, an cir line Of about
t~wenty-four miles.
Tie outer edge Of the funnel was loadee
with large limbs of trees. The lighter
ones were drawn further upward. tn
larger branches, while travelling areun<
and around on the edge Of the storm
and forward as The storm travelled, had
d spinning motion. going round like tops
A barn was caught in the storm ana
whirled around so that the face that hat
been exposed to the east was facing ths
northeast when the storm passed. Ths
barn was unharraed and after IL was
lacked up and turned Back TO its fouflda-
tions no repairs were needed.
A tree with a trunk two feet In dfanie.
fer was twisted SO that when It fell !
appears to have made half a revolution
As q TOP would. A lot Of w~reekage, limb.
OF trees and shingles dropped from th'
storm cloud a little beyond Red BaFl
when the storm was high in the air.
This storm came out of what was pfae
tically a. clear sky.