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Tornado Warnings in New York, 2020

33 tornado warnings in 2020. 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
33
Busiest month
August17 tornado warnings
Busiest day
August 27, 20206 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 21, 2:33 PM EDTTornado WarningOKXBronx, Nassau, New York, Westchester27 min
May 15, 4:46 PM EDTTornado WarningALYHamilton, Herkimer23 min
May 15, 4:58 PM EDTTornado WarningALYFulton, Hamilton, Herkimer21 min
May 15, 5:38 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMDelaware37 min
May 15, 6:16 PM EDTTornado WarningALYWashington29 min
May 15, 7:21 PM EDTTornado WarningALYUlster24 min
May 29, 5:44 PM EDTTornado WarningALYSaratoga, Warren31 min
Jul 13, 5:38 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFJefferson, Lewis22 min
Jul 16, 4:07 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFCattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie38 min
Jul 16, 5:50 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFCattaraugus, Chautauqua40 min
Jul 16, 6:32 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFCattaraugus28 min
Jul 16, 6:59 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFCattaraugus31 min
Jul 29, 6:50 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFLivingston, Monroe, Ontario28 min
Aug 2, 7:39 PM EDTTornado WarningALYHamilton24 min
Aug 2, 7:42 PM EDTTornado WarningBTVEssex, Franklin33 min
Aug 2, 8:11 PM EDTTornado WarningBTVEssex34 min
Aug 4, 9:09 AM EDTTornado WarningBGMSullivan36 min
Aug 4, 1:38 PM EDTTornado WarningALYAlbany, Columbia, Rensselaer26 min
Aug 4, 2:05 PM EDTTornado WarningOKXSuffolk25 min
Aug 27, 1:12 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMDelaware, Otsego33 min
Aug 27, 1:42 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMDelaware33 min
Aug 27, 2:05 PM EDTTornado WarningALYGreene, Ulster40 min
Aug 27, 2:48 PM EDTTornado WarningALYDutchess27 min
Aug 27, 2:56 PM EDTTornado WarningALYDutchess, Ulster21 min
Aug 27, 3:14 PM EDTTornado WarningALYDutchess31 min
Aug 29, 4:17 PM EDTTornado WarningALYFulton, Saratoga43 min
Aug 29, 5:11 PM EDTTornado WarningALYSaratoga, Washington34 min
Aug 29, 5:31 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedALYRensselaer, Saratoga, Washington29 min
Aug 29, 6:00 PM EDTTornado WarningALYRensselaer45 min
Aug 29, 6:27 PM EDTTornado WarningALYRensselaer33 min
Nov 15, 8:36 PM ESTTornado WarningOKXBronx, New York, Westchester24 min
Nov 15, 8:44 PM ESTTornado WarningOKXPutnam, Westchester31 min
Nov 15, 9:29 PM ESTTornado WarningOKXSuffolk31 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. August 27, 20206tornado warnings
  2. May 15, 20205tornado warnings
  3. August 29, 20205tornado warnings
  4. July 16, 20204tornado warnings
  5. August 4, 20203tornado warnings
  6. November 16, 20203tornado warnings
  7. August 2, 20202tornado warnings
  8. April 21, 20201tornado warnings
  9. May 29, 20201tornado warnings
  10. July 13, 20201tornado warnings
  11. July 29, 20201tornado warnings
  12. August 3, 20201tornado warnings

Nearby

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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.