mid-afternoon hours. Impacts Four people were killed and 62 were injured, mainly in the New Jersey and the New York City area, but damage also extended east to Long Island and Southwestern Connecticut. Damage was particularly heavy in Union County, where the towns of Plainfield, Cranford, Clark and Rahway declared a state of emergency, imposed overnight curfews and postponed the opening day of school. Four small tornadoes were spawned by this storm, including an F2 tornado in Lynbrook, New York, that caused 6 injuries and $1 million in damage. Officials said that some 19,500 customers in the city and Westchester County were without power, roughly 71,500 on Long Island, 77,000 in New Jersey, and 10,000 in southern Connecticut. Thousands of trees were blown down and about 100 boats were overturned. A six-person air-sea rescue team from the Police Department's Aviation Unit, based at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn had to respond to numerous emergency calls. See also List of derecho events References External links 1998 meteorology Natural disasters in Michigan Natural disasters in New Jersey Natural disasters in New York (state) Natural disasters in Ohio Natural disasters in Pennsylvania Derechos in the United States 1998 natural disasters in the United States September 1998 events in the United States