Tornado, Erie
- When
- September 25, 5:00 PM EST
- Where
- Erie County, Evans Center
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 5 yd
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Coordinates
- 42.650, -79.030
Tornado in New York, September 25, 1997
Cold air moving across the relatively warm waters of Lake Erie produced a waterspout which moved onshore in the Town of Evans. The weak tornado downed power lines and five large maple trees.
Where it happened
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- Wind
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $15,000
- 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.
Cold air moving across the relatively warm waters of Lake Erie produced a waterspout which moved onshore in the Town of Evans. The weak tornado downed power lines and five large maple trees.
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 41 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:57 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
- Tropical Storm in Arizona, September 25, 1997
- Tropical Storm in California, September 25, 1997
- Wildfire in California, September 25, 1997
- High Wind and Heavy Rain in Utah, September 25 to 26, 1997
- Tropical Storm in California, September 25, 1997
- High Surf in California, September 25 to 28, 1997
- Flooding in California, September 25, 1997
- Flash Flood and Flood in Arizona, September 25 to 26, 1997
- Flooding in Nevada, September 25, 1997
- Flash Flood and Flood in California, September 25, 1997
- Flood in California, September 25, 1997
- Flash Flood in Arizona, September 25, 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, September 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: 5616697.