Alert archive / New York / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in New York, 1998
8 tornado watches in 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest month
- May4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 31, 19984 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 9:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Clinton, Erie, Essex and 21 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Albany, Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Columbia, Cortland and 19 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie and 10 more | 7 hr |
| May 31, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam and 4 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 8:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Albany, Broome, Chenango, Columbia, Cortland, Delaware and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 10:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Livingston and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware and 18 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Madison County4
- Oneida County4
- Ontario County4
- Wayne County4
- Yates County4
- Cattaraugus County3
- Cayuga County3
- Chautauqua County3
- Erie County3
- Genesee County3
- Livingston County3
- Monroe County3
- Onondaga County3
- Oswego County3
- Seneca County3
- Wyoming County3
- Broome County3
- Chemung County3
- Chenango County3
- Cortland County3
- Delaware County3
- Fulton County3
- Montgomery County3
- Otsego County3
- Schoharie County3
- Sullivan County3
- Tioga County3
- Steuben County3
- Herkimer County2
- Niagara County2
- Orleans County2
- Warren County2
- Albany County2
- Columbia County2
- Dutchess County2
- Greene County2
- Rensselaer County2
- Saratoga County2
- Schenectady County2
- Tompkins County2
22 more counties
- Ulster County2
- Washington County2
- Allegany County2
- Schuyler County2
- Bronx County2
- Kings County2
- Nassau County2
- New York County2
- Orange County2
- Putnam County2
- Queens County2
- Richmond County2
- Rockland County2
- Westchester County2
- Clinton County1
- Essex County1
- Franklin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lewis County1
- St. Lawrence County1
- Suffolk County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19971999
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.