Thunderstorm Wind, Delaware
- When
- August 10, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Delaware County
- Coordinates
- 42.220, -74.920
Tornado and Damaging Winds in New York, August 10, 1979
8 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 9
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, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Orange
- When
- August 10, 12:45 PM CST
- Where
- Orange County
- Coordinates
- 41.380, -74.280
Thunderstorm Wind, Ulster
- When
- August 10, 1:00 PM CST
- Where
- Ulster County
- Coordinates
- 41.880, -74.230
Thunderstorm Wind, New York
- When
- August 10, 1:00 PM CST
- Where
- New York County
- Coordinates
- 40.730, -74.000
Thunderstorm Wind, Greene
- When
- August 10, 1:30 PM CST
- Where
- Greene County
- Coordinates
- 42.280, -74.100
Thunderstorm Wind, Dutchess
- When
- August 10, 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- Dutchess County
- Coordinates
- 41.750, -73.720
Thunderstorm Wind, Columbia
- When
- August 10, 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- Columbia County
- Coordinates
- 42.270, -73.620
Thunderstorm Wind, Queens
- When
- August 10, 2:35 PM CST
- Where
- Queens County
- Coordinates
- 40.770, -73.900
Tornado, Suffolk
- When
- August 10, 2:45 PM CST
- Where
- Suffolk County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 40.930, -72.330
What these are
- 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.
- 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, August 10, 1979
- Tornado in Delaware, August 10, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, August 10, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, August 10, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 10, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Connecticut, August 10, 1979
- Damaging Winds in New Jersey, August 10, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Rhode Island, August 10, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Texas, August 10, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 10, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Maryland, August 10, 1979
- Damaging Winds in West Virginia, August 10, 1979
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: 10075614, 10075615, 10075616, 10075617, 10075618, 10075619, 10075620, 10075621, 10075622.