Tornado, Allegany
- When
- July 8, 3:18 PM EST to 3:22 PM EST
- Where
- Allegany County, Stannards
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 15 yd
- Property damage
- $35,000
- Crop damage
- $15,000
- Coordinates
- 42.080, -77.930
Tornado in New York, July 8, 1997
A weak tornado touched down during the afternoon. Trees, up to 2 feet wide, were snapped off, twisted and a few were uprooted.
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
- $35,000
- Crop damage
- $15,000
- 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 during the afternoon. Trees, up to 2 feet wide, were snapped off, twisted and a few were uprooted. One power line was downed by a falling tree. A parked car was destroyed when a large tree fell on it. Witnesses reported torrential rain, followed by one inch hail, a quick period of calm and then the appearance of the tornado.
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 117 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:19 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Colorado, July 8, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, July 8 to 14, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 8, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 8, 1997
- Flash Flooding in Texas, July 8, 1997
- Tornado in Pennsylvania, July 8, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 8, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 8, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 8, 1997
- Flash Flood in Ohio, July 8 to 9, 1997
- Hail in Nebraska, July 8, 1997
- Flood in Louisiana, July 8, 1997
More
Every storm in New York in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for New York, 1997Warnings in New York, July 1997
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: 5609943.