New York, 1998

Tornado in New York, June 26, 1998

June 26, 1998 · NWS BGM · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
$1,000
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.

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1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Chenango

When
June 26, 6:10 PM EST to 6:11 PM EST
Where
Chenango County, 4 mi S of New Berlin
Rating
F0
Path length
0.1 mi
Path width
20 yd
Property damage
$1,000
Reported by
EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates
42.570, -75.330

A severe thunderstorm produced a brief tornado around 7:10 p.m EDT which uprooted some trees near the Riverbend golf course along Route 8. The tornado was first spotted, and subsequently photographed, looking east from the Norwich Fairgrounds where several eyewitnesses spotted a funnel cloud during the Bluegrass Festival around 7 p. m. EDT. The apparent tornado was tracked moving east-northeast crossing Routes 23 and 8 to the south of New Berlin. After it's brief touchdown, the tornado gradually lifted as it moved toward Otsego County with no further reports of touchdowns or damage.

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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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: 5678157.