Tornado, Ontario
- When
- July 15, 12:20 PM EST to 12:35 PM EST
- Where
- Ontario County, Victor
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 15 yd
- Property damage
- $30,000
- Coordinates
- 42.980, -77.400
Tornado in New York, July 15, 1996
A small tornado touched down during the early afternoon. The tornado first touched down off Proximity Lane, which is adjacent to a golf course.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $30,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS BUF wrote it up.
A small tornado touched down during the early afternoon. The tornado first touched down off Proximity Lane, which is adjacent to a golf course. It ended along route 96 near Atwal Drive. The greatest structural damage was to the roof of a barn located on Brace Road. The roof was lifted from the barn and tossed into an adjacent home. In addition, an electric transformer estimated to weigh over 3000 pounds was pushed off its cement pad and toppled over.
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 109 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:17 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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
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- Damaging Wind in Virginia, July 15, 1996
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: 5567532.