Tornado, Chautauqua
- When
- July 28, 5:20 AM CST
- Where
- Chautauqua County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 250 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 42.120, -79.300
Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in New York, July 28, 1982
3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
- 1
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 5
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
3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Niagara
- When
- July 28, 5:45 AM CST
- Where
- Niagara County
- Coordinates
- 43.170, -78.700
Thunderstorm Wind, Niagara
- When
- July 28, 6:00 AM CST
- Where
- Niagara County
- Coordinates
- 43.080, -79.030
Tornado, Chautauqua
- When
- July 28, 3:15 PM CST
- Where
- Chautauqua County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 42.480, -79.230
Thunderstorm Wind, Cattaraugus
- When
- July 28, 4:07 PM CST
- Where
- Cattaraugus County
- Coordinates
- 42.330, -78.870
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 Connecticut, July 28, 1982
- Damaging Winds in New Jersey, July 28, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 28, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, July 28, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Texas, July 28, 1982
- Tornado in Florida, July 28, 1982
- Hail in Utah, July 28, 1982
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 28, 1982
- Hail in Nevada, July 28, 1982
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: 10078182, 10078183, 10078184, 10078185, 10078186.