Alert archive / New York / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in New York, 1997
2 tornado watches in 1997. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest month
- July2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- July 3, 19972 tornado watches
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 11:15 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Albany, Broome, Cayuga, Chenango, Columbia, Cortland and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 3, 4:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bronx, Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Greene, Kings and 11 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Columbia County2
- Delaware County2
- Greene County2
- Albany County1
- Broome County1
- Cayuga County1
- Chenango County1
- Cortland County1
- Essex County1
- Fulton County1
- Hamilton County1
- Herkimer County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lewis County1
- Madison County1
- Montgomery County1
- Oneida County1
- Onondaga County1
- Oswego County1
- Otsego County1
- Rensselaer County1
- Saratoga County1
- Schenectady County1
- Schoharie County1
- Tioga County1
- Tompkins County1
- Warren County1
- Washington County1
- Bronx County1
- Dutchess County1
- Kings County1
- Nassau County1
- New York County1
- Orange County1
- Putnam County1
- Queens County1
- Richmond County1
- Rockland County1
- Suffolk County1
- Sullivan County1
2 more counties
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19961998
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.