Alert archive / New York / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in New York, 2020
6 tornado watches 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest month
- August5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- August 4, 20202 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 15, 3:32 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Albany, Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Columbia and 25 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Albany, Chenango, Clinton, Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 4, 7:23 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam and 5 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 4, 12:43 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 27, 1:22 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Broome, Chenango, Columbia, Cortland, Delaware, Dutchess and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 27, 3:19 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk, Westchester | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Columbia County4
- Dutchess County4
- Greene County4
- Ulster County4
- Albany County3
- Chenango County3
- Delaware County3
- Otsego County3
- Rensselaer County3
- Saratoga County3
- Schenectady County3
- Warren County3
- Washington County3
- Orange County3
- Putnam County3
- Rockland County3
- Westchester County3
- Broome County2
- Cortland County2
- Fulton County2
- Hamilton County2
- Herkimer County2
- Madison County2
- Montgomery County2
- Oneida County2
- Schoharie County2
- Tioga County2
- Tompkins County2
- Sullivan County2
- Suffolk County2
- Cayuga County1
- Chemung County1
- Onondaga County1
- Schuyler County1
- Seneca County1
- Steuben County1
- Yates County1
- Clinton County1
- Essex County1
- Franklin County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.