An EF2 <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Brooklyn_tornadoes" id="mwAUg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2007 Brooklyn tornadoes">tornado</a> touches down in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn" id="mwAUk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Brooklyn">Kings County</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staten_Island" id="mwAUo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Staten Island">Richmond County, New York</a>, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.