Alert archive / New York / 1997
Weather alerts in New York, May 1997
44 weather alerts in May 1997, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 44
- Warnings
- 37
- Watches
- 7
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 6, 199717 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Richmond, Rockland, Sullivan and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 1, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau, Suffolk | 40 min |
| May 1, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Essex | 34 min |
| May 1, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 46 min |
| May 1, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia | 64 min |
| May 1, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 43 min |
| May 1, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 42 min |
| May 1, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau, Suffolk | 56 min |
| May 3, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango and 16 more | 7 hr |
| May 3, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dutchess, Orange, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster | 6 hr |
| May 6, 9:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Broome, Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, Tioga, Ulster | 6 hr |
| May 6, 11:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware | 64 min |
| May 6, 11:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 62 min |
| May 6, 11:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bronx, Columbia, Dutchess, Kings, Nassau, New York and 7 more | 5 hr |
| May 6, 11:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 59 min |
| May 6, 12:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Montgomery | 44 min |
| May 6, 12:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 63 min |
| May 6, 1:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Greene | 45 min |
| May 6, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bronx, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester | 56 min |
| May 6, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Richmond | 56 min |
| May 6, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | New York | 56 min |
| May 6, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Kings, Queens | 56 min |
| May 6, 1:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia | 50 min |
| May 6, 1:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau | 67 min |
| May 6, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Suffolk | 57 min |
| May 6, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bronx, New York | 28 min |
| May 6, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Kings, Queens | 28 min |
| May 9, 1:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango | 47 min |
| May 9, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Montgomery | 40 min |
| May 9, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Saratoga, Schenectady | 40 min |
| May 19, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 47 min |
| May 19, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wyoming | 45 min |
| May 19, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 44 min |
| May 19, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan, Ulster | 4 hr |
| May 19, 8:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware | 36 min |
| May 19, 9:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 67 min |
| May 19, 9:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 63 min |
| May 19, 9:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Rockland, Westchester | 66 min |
| May 19, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Putnam, Queens and 3 more | 3 hr |
| May 19, 9:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 59 min |
| May 19, 9:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 54 min |
| May 19, 10:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Putnam | 58 min |
| May 19, 10:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 50 min |
| May 19, 10:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau | 60 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 37 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 7 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Orange County8
- Dutchess County6
- Rockland County6
- Sullivan County6
- Ulster County6
- Nassau County6
- Putnam County5
- Richmond County4
- Suffolk County4
- Bronx County4
- Kings County4
- New York County4
- Queens County4
- Westchester County4
- Columbia County3
- Delaware County3
- Broome County2
- Cattaraugus County2
- Chenango County2
- Tioga County2
- Wyoming County2
- Greene County2
- Montgomery County2
- Essex County1
- Rensselaer County1
- Allegany County1
- Cayuga County1
- Chemung County1
- Cortland County1
- Genesee County1
- Livingston County1
- Madison County1
- Monroe County1
- Oneida County1
- Onondaga County1
- Ontario County1
- Schuyler County1
- Seneca County1
- Steuben County1
- Tompkins County1
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.