Lake Effect Snow Watches in New York
220 lake effect snow watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of lake effect snow watches reaches back to 2005.
Lake Effect Snow Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Lake Effect Snow Watches
- 220
- Busiest year
- 200736 lake effect snow watches
- Average year
- 17over 13 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Oswego County91
- Lewis County77
- Jefferson County67
- Chautauqua County59
- Oneida County58
- Cattaraugus County57
- Erie County55
- Cayuga County49
- Wayne County39
- Wyoming County36
- Onondaga County33
- Madison County32
- Herkimer County23
- Genesee County17
- Hamilton County15
- Monroe County10
- St. Lawrence County8
- Niagara County6
- Orleans County6
- Allegany County5
- Chenango County5
- Cortland County5
- Franklin County4
- Otsego County3
- Essex County2
- Fulton County2
- Montgomery County1
- Warren County1
- Ontario County1
- Tompkins County1
- Livingston County1
- Seneca County1
Nearby
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.