Tornado in New York, August 10, 1990

Name: Tornado in New York, August 10, 1990
Start: 1990-08-10T13:45
End: 1990-08-10T13:45
Location: New York

August 10, 1990 · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 3
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Richmond

When: August 10, 1:45 PM CST
Where: Richmond County
Rating: F0
Path length: 2 mi
Path width: 17 yd
Injuries: 3 direct, 0 indirect
Coordinates: 40.570, -74.100

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.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in New York in 1990 Every state in 1990 This day in weather history The tornado archive for New York, 1990 Warnings in New York, August 1990

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: 10074439.