Alert archive / New York / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in New York, May 1998
4 tornado watches in May 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 May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- May 31, 19984 tornado watches
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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cattaraugus County2
- Cayuga County2
- Chautauqua County2
- Erie County2
- Genesee County2
- Livingston County2
- Madison County2
- Monroe County2
- Oneida County2
- Onondaga County2
- Ontario County2
- Oswego County2
- Seneca County2
- Wayne County2
- Wyoming County2
- Yates County2
- Chemung County2
- Clinton County1
- Essex County1
- Franklin County1
- Hamilton County1
- Herkimer County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lewis County1
- Niagara County1
- Orleans County1
- St. Lawrence County1
- Warren County1
- Albany County1
- Broome County1
- Chenango County1
- Columbia County1
- Cortland County1
- Delaware County1
- Dutchess County1
- Fulton County1
- Greene County1
- Montgomery County1
- Otsego County1
- Rensselaer County1
21 more counties
- Saratoga County1
- Schenectady County1
- Schoharie County1
- Sullivan County1
- Tioga County1
- Tompkins County1
- Ulster County1
- Washington County1
- Allegany County1
- Schuyler County1
- Steuben County1
- Bronx County1
- Kings County1
- Nassau County1
- New York County1
- Orange County1
- Putnam County1
- Queens County1
- Richmond County1
- Rockland County1
- Westchester County1
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.