Alert archive / New York / Tornado Watches / 2020
Tornado Watches in New York, August 2020
5 tornado watches in August 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 August 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- August 4, 20202 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 County3
- Dutchess County3
- Greene County3
- Orange County3
- Putnam County3
- Rockland County3
- Ulster County3
- Westchester County3
- Albany County2
- Chenango County2
- Delaware County2
- Otsego County2
- Rensselaer County2
- Saratoga County2
- Schenectady County2
- Sullivan County2
- Warren County2
- Washington County2
- Suffolk County2
- Clinton County1
- Essex County1
- Franklin County1
- Fulton County1
- Hamilton County1
- Herkimer County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lewis County1
- Madison County1
- Montgomery County1
- Oneida County1
- St. Lawrence County1
- Schoharie County1
- Bronx County1
- Kings County1
- Nassau County1
- New York County1
- Queens County1
- Richmond County1
- Broome County1
- Cortland County1
2 more counties
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.