New Yorkers have become somewhat inured to the various reasons that their smartphones vibrate with alerts. And then there was Thursday night, when a tornado warning sent phones and their owners buzzing.

A swath of the lower Bronx and upper Queens spent 14 minutes under a tornado warning on Thursday night, with smartphone alerts urging residents to seek shelter.

Smirks and eyerolls greeted the warning — even as an actual tornado touched down in College Point, Queens, knocking down at least 50 trees, tearing down power lines and peeling siding off some houses.

The National Weather Service confirmed on Friday that a tornado with a maximum speed of 85 miles per hour struck New York. There were no reported injuries.