EF1 tornado, Monroe and Wayne counties, New York, September 2, 2026

1. EF065 to 85 mph

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. EF2111 to 135 mph

   Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

4. EF3136 to 165 mph

   Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. EF5over 200 mph

   Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

7. Unrated

   The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Rating, as surveyed

EF1, preliminary

Date

September 2, 2026

Touchdown

7:30 PM EDT (23:30 UTC)

Lifted

7:34 PM EDT (23:34 UTC)

On the ground

4 minutes

Path length

3.2 miles (5.2 km)

Path width

130 yards (119 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Counties

Monroe and Wayne counties

Touchdown point

43.227, -77.401

Lift-off point

43.206, -77.345

Highest wind the damage implies

105 mph

Surveyed by

NWS BUF

The office's name for it

Webster & Ontario

Survey last edited

September 5, 2026

Record number

None yet. SPC numbers 2026 in the spring of 2027.

The National Weather Service in Buffalo completed a damage survey across eastern Monroe County and western Wayne County today in response to reports of concentrated areas of damage near Webster and Ontario from a line of severe thunderstorms on Wednesday, September 2nd.

Embedded low level rotation within a squall line moved through Webster shortly before 7:30 pm, and a tornado touched down in the vicinity of Salt Road just north of Route 104 as evidenced by several snapped softwood trees. The tornado then crossed Route 104 as it headed southeastward, with another area of concentrated damage noted near the intersection of Basket Road and Ridge Road. Here several hardwood trees were snapped or uprooted, and a fewl power poles were knocked down. The tornado then continued to the southeast through open fields until encountering a small subdivision just west of County Line Road. Here the most significant damage occurred with roof uplift, considerable shingle loss, and siding damage on a few homes on Halesworth Lane and Bannerwood Drive. Numerous trees in the subdivision were also snapped or uprooted. Additional tree damage was seen along Foxworth Drive, and then the tornado travelled through a large forested area with no road access. Finally, the tornado emerged along North Lincoln Road just north of Whitney Drive, and produced extensive tree damage at a large property where numerous mature trees were uprooted or snapped, before lifting just east of this area.

Written by NWS BUF in the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit. A survey is revised as better evidence arrives.

16 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS BUF, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 105 mph.

• Four large hardwood trees uprooted at a cemetery along Ridge Rd
• Several large softwoods uprooted and snapped
• Extensive tree damage on two properties on the north side of Ridge Rd. Numerous trees snapped and uprooted, numerous large limbs down.
• Softwood tree snapped at the trunk just west of Salt Rd

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

2 minutes of warning. NWS BUF issued a tornado warning for this county at 23:28 UTC, 2 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 00:15 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 20:41 UTC and running to 02:09 UTC.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Enhanced Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 20:00 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 23:27 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2026 tornado in New YorkEvery tornado in New York since 1950Warnings in force in New York nowThe forecast where you are

8 more have been surveyed in the United States that day, so far.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. A survey can be revised, so the rating, the path and the casualties can all still change.

NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit, the record the survey teams file from the damage, and NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports. Neither is the official database for 2026, which SPC publishes in the spring of 2027.