Lightning strikes the antenna on the top of the Empire State Building in New York City during a summer thunderstorm Dark clouds hover over the Empire State Building and Manhattan Pedestrians' umbrellas buckle under high winds as a massive storm looms above Times Square A house in Elmira, New York, is damaged by a falling tree after the town was hit by severe thunderstorms Jessica Stansfield poses for a photo below an enormous uprooted tree in Elmira, New York, after the town was hit by a tornado. Severe thunderstorms unleashed heavy rain and strong winds across parts of the Midwest and Northeast, grounding hundreds of flights and leaving tens of thousands of people without power. The storms spawned a tornado that touched down in Elmira. A storm cloud begins to dump rain as it passes over the Brooklyn borough of New York Singing in the rain: Are Kjeldsberg-Skauby, 12, from Norway, dances during a torrential downpour in Times Square Clouds gather over apartment buildings ahead of a t