Tornado, Oswego
- When
- July 15, 2:00 PM EST to 2:05 PM EST
- Where
- Oswego County, Granby
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 8 yd
- Injuries
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $35,000
- Coordinates
- 43.480, -76.730
Tornado in New York, July 15, 1996
A weak tornado touched down in the town of Granby. The storm destroyed a mobile home on Phinney Road.
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
- 3
- Property damage
- $35,000
- 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 weak tornado touched down in the town of Granby. The storm destroyed a mobile home on Phinney Road. There were three people in the trailer at the time. All three suffered minor injuries.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Flash Flood in Nevada, July 15, 1996
- Tornado in New York, July 15, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, July 15, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 15, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, July 15, 1996
- Strong Wind in New York, July 15, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, July 15, 1996
More
Every storm in New York in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for New York, 1996Warnings in New York, July 1996
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: 5567533.