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A tornado touched down in the Herkimer County town of West Winfield in upstate New York on Saturday morning, damaging structures and uprooting trees.. The tornado, rated as an EF-1, or weak, on ...
August 7, 1900 – A strong FU tornado struck areas around New Rochelle, snapping trees and destroying multiple well-built structures. The tornado was estimated to have caused $15,000 (1900 USD) in damages, and had an unknown amount of fatalities or injuries. [1] This is one of the first recorded tornadoes to hit New York.
It is not yet clear whether a tornado touched down in Ontario County in upstate New York on Monday afternoon. The National Weather Service in Buffalo on Tuesday will send a team to Canandaigua and ...
Cities across upstate New York were cleaning up after a storm swept through Tuesday with high winds and spectacular lightning and flying debris that killed one person. In the small city of Rome, New York, a tornado ripped off roofs, tipped over vehicles and turned several buildings into piles of rubble.
More: Dramatic videos show tornadoes touching down in upstate New York. Town of Darien, Genesee County, 1:42 p.m. Rating: EF-0. ... New York tornadoes: Seven twisters verified by Weather Service.
Only about one in six tornadoes in New York are EF2 or greater, said Nick Bassill, director of the State Weather Risk Communications Center at the University at Albany. The Rome tornado was among 10 confirmed in the state that day. One of them killed an 82-year-old man about 20 miles (30 kilometers) west of Rome who was struck by storm debris.
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The outbreak extended as far east as Upstate New York. 27 fatalities were reported in total, with nine resulting from tornadoes (eight in Oklahoma and one in Arkansas). By far the most significant tornado of the outbreak was an extremely large EF3 tornado [a] that struck areas near the town of El Reno, Oklahoma on May 31. With a maximum width ...