Tornadoes · United States · Vermont

1998 tornadoes in Vermont

No tornado was recorded in Vermont in 1998. The state averages 1.6 a year over the 31 years it has any in the record.

1993 2002 The whole country in 1998

What Vermont usually sees

The record has 49 tornadoes in Vermont since 1950, none of them fatal. Every year in Vermont.

Crossed into Vermont

Tornadoes that touched down in a neighboring state and ran into Vermont. They are counted under the state they began in.

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
May 313:22 PM CDTF3Saratoga, NY to VT30.597068$71 million

Nearby

Every tornado in Vermont since 1950Warnings in force in VermontThe live radar over Vermont

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.