Tornado, Chautauqua
- When
- June 20, 5:55 AM CST
- Where
- Chautauqua County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 45.6 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 42.020, -79.630
Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in New York, June 20, 1969
8 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 11
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
8 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Chautauqua
- When
- June 20, 6:00 AM CST
- Where
- Chautauqua County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 38.5 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 42.250, -78.800
Thunderstorm Wind, Steuben
- When
- June 20, 6:30 AM CST
- Where
- Steuben County
- Coordinates
- 42.280, -77.680
Tornado, Tompkins
- When
- June 20, 7:45 AM CST
- Where
- Tompkins County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 42.420, -76.530
Thunderstorm Wind, Schuyler
- When
- June 20, 7:45 AM CST
- Where
- Schuyler County
- Coordinates
- 42.380, -76.780
Thunderstorm Wind, Tompkins
- When
- June 20, 7:45 AM CST
- Where
- Tompkins County
- Measured
- 70 kt (81 mph)
- Coordinates
- 42.500, -76.500
Thunderstorm Wind, Cortland
- When
- June 20, 8:15 AM CST
- Where
- Cortland County
- Coordinates
- 42.500, -76.000
Thunderstorm Wind, Otsego
- When
- June 20, 9:00 AM CST
- Where
- Otsego County
- Coordinates
- 42.580, -75.280
Thunderstorm Wind, Chenango
- When
- June 20, 9:00 AM CST
- Where
- Chenango County
- Coordinates
- 42.500, -75.680
Thunderstorm Wind, Albany
- When
- June 20, 10:30 AM CST
- Where
- Albany County
- Coordinates
- 42.780, -73.780
Thunderstorm Wind,
- When
- June 20, 11:00 AM CST
- Where
- County
- Coordinates
- 42.880, -73.280
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Idaho, June 20, 1969
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 20, 1969
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 20, 1969
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Connecticut, June 20, 1969
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 20, 1969
- Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, June 20, 1969
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Utah, June 20, 1969
- Hail in Oklahoma, June 20, 1969
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, June 20, 1969
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 20, 1969
- Damaging Wind in Vermont, June 20, 1969
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10076081, 10076082, 10076083, 10076084, 10076931, 10076932, 10077146, 10077147, 10077148, 10077149, 10077150.