NOUS41 KALY 312352 PNSALY NYZ039-010300- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 750 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002 ...TORNADO CONFIRMED AT JOHNSTOWN IN FULTON COUNTY... AT 155 PM EDT IN THE TOWN OF JOHNSTOWN...FULTON COUNTY THERE WAS A TWO PART STORM. THE SOUTHERN PORTION WAS A DOWNBURST WHICH FLATTENED A WIDE SWATH OF TREES FROM ABOUT 1/2 MILE SOUTHEAST OF TOWN EASTWARD FOR ABOUT 1/2 MILE ACROSS ROUTE 30A INTO A NEIGHBORHOOD EAST OF THE HOLIDAY INN. ON THE NORTHWEST SIDE OF THIS DAMAGE SWATH ALONG ROUTE 30A THE HOLIDAY THEATER WAS STRUCK BY AN F0 OR F1 SCALE TORNADO. THE THEATER HAD SECTIONS OF THE ROOF BLOWN OFF AND ALSO A SECTION OF THE BACK WALL WAS BLOWN OUT. BEHIND THE THEATER TREES WERE UPROOTED AND KNOCKED DOWN IN BOTH A NORTH AND EAST DIRECTION IN A CRISSCROSS PATTERN. AT THE HOLIDAY INN NEXT DOOR THE FRONT DOOR WAS TORN OFF AND TWO CARS WERE DAMAGED. SOME DEBRIS FROM THE HOLIDAY THEATER MARQUEE WAS FOUND ABOUT 1/3 MILE AWAY. $$ WESTERGARD, WARNING COORDINATION METEOROLOGIST WFO ALBANY, NY /GG --------------------------------- NOUS41 KBGM 012023 PNSBGM PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 425 PM EDT SAT JUN 01 2002 ...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONFIRMS A WEAK TORNADO HIT WAYNE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE COUNTY NEW YORK... A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM SURVEY TEAM WAS IN THE DAMAGE AREA THIS MORNING AND CONFIRMED THAT A WEAK TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN THE AREA. THE TORNADO INITIALLY TOUCHED DOWN ACROSS THE RIVER FROM LORDVILLE ...TRAVELED EAST...AND LIFTED OUT OF THE RIVER VALLEY APPROXIMATELY A MILE AND A HALF DOWNSTREAM OR EAST OF LORDVILLE AT BOUCHOUX BROOK. THE DAMAGE PATH WAS APPROXIMATELY A QUARTER MILE WIDE. TORNADO DAMAGE WAS EVIDENT ON BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER. IN THE VICINITY OF THE TOUCHDOWN...THERE WAS ALSO CONSIDERABLE STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE...ESPECIALLY ON THE PENNSYLVANIA SIDE OF THE RIVER EAST OF EQUININK. IN TOTAL...HUNDREDS OF TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN IN THE AREA OF THE TOUCHDOWN AND STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. ONE PERSON IN LORDVILLE RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES WHEN HIS TRAILER OVERTURNED. MOST OTHER STRUCTURAL DAMAGE WAS A RESULT OF TREES FALLING ON HOMES. THE DAMAGE IS CONSISTENT WITH A STRONG F0 TORNADO OR A WEAK F1 TORNADO. F0 EQUATES TO WINDS OF 40-72 MPH. F1 EQUATES TO WINDS OF 73-112 MPH. MORE INFORMATION, ALONG WITH DAMAGE PHOTOS WILL BE POSTED TO THE NWS BINGHAMTON WEB SITE WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. THE ADDRESS IS: HTTP://WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/ER/BGM MORFORD/BREWSTER --------------------------------- NOUS41 KBGM 011951 PNSBGM PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 350 PM EDT SAT JUN 01 2002 ...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONFIRMS F1 TORNADO DAMAGE IN OWEGO,NY... ...WINDS ESTIMATED UP TO 110 MPH... A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SURVEY TEAM STUDIED THE WIND DAMAGE IN THE TOWN OF OWEGO IN EASTERN TIOGA COUNTY THIS MORNING. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE DAMAGE THAT OCCURED AROUND 3:45 PM FRIDAY, MAY 31ST WAS CAUSED BY A TORNADO, WHICH REACHED F1 INTENSITY WITH MAXIMUM WIND SPEEDS AROUND 110 MPH. THE TORNADO FIRST TOUCHED DOWN ABOUT A MILE AND A HALF NORTHEAST OF THE VILLAGE OF OWEGO, ALONG CARMICHAEL ROAD. AS THE TORNADO PASSED OVER A RIDGE TOWARD BEECHER HILL ROAD, THE MOST EXTENSIVE DAMAGE WAS FOUND. ALONG WITH MAJOR TREE DAMAGE, ONE MOBILE HOME WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED AND A HOUSE SUFFERED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE. FIVE PEOPLE WERE INJURED IN THE MOBILE HOME, SUFFERING MANY CUTS AND BRUISES. TWO ELDERLY OCCUPANTS OF THE OTHER HOME ALSO SUFFERED MINOR INJURIES. A PIECE OF LUMBER WENT THROUGH THE SIDE OF A HOME ACROSS THE STREET. IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE DAMAGE SEEN HERE IS CONSISTENT WITH HIGH END F1 TORNADO, WITH WIND SPEEDS UP TO 110 MPH. THE TORNADO CONTINUED EAST AND CROSSED LISLE ROAD. AS THE TORNADO CAME OVER ANOTHER RIDGE TOWARD LISLE ROAD, A GENTLEMAN IN HIS BARN WITNESSED THE TORNADO WITH SWIRLING DEBRIS COMING OVER THE RIDGE. HE WAS ABLE TO TAKE SHELTER BEFORE MANY OF THE WINDOWS WERE BLOWN OUT OF HIS BARN. SIGNIFICANT TREE DAMAGE COULD BE SEEN, ESPECIALLY AT THE TOP OF THE RIDGE. THE TORNADO CONTINUED EAST, CROSSING GASKILL ROAD. ONE PROPERTY SAW SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE, WITH ONE BARN DESTROYED AND A SHED FROM THE PROPERTY WAS TORN APART. DEBRIS WAS BLOWN AS FAR AS A QUARTER MILE AWAY. MANY LARGE TREES WERE UPROOTED WITH OTHERS TWISTED AND BROKEN OFF. SIGNIFICANT TREE DAMAGE WAS ALSO SEEN AT THE TOP OF THE RIDGE WEST OF THE PROPERTY WITH MANY TREES BROKEN OR TWISTED OFF AT MID-TRUNK. PIECES OF SIDING FROM A HOME WERE ALSO FOUND IN THIS AREA. AT THIS POINT, IT APPEARS THE TORNADO LIFTED BRIEFLY BEFORE TOUCHING DOWN FOR THE FINAL TIME IN THE AREA WHERE FORD ROAD, FOSTER ROAD AND WHITTEMORE HILL ROAD MEET. THE DAMAGE HERE CONSISTED OF ANOTHER MOBILE HOME THAT WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED AND SIGNIFICANT TREE DAMAGE. BASED ON THE LENGTH OF THE DAMAGE PATH SEEN, IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THE TORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND FOR APPROXIMATELY 6 MILES. THE CORE OF THE DAMAGE...CONSISTENT WITH F1 INTENSITY (73-112 MPH)...WAS AROUND 1/10 TO 2/10 MILE WIDE ALONG GASKILL AND FOSTER ROADS. F0 DAMAGE (40-72 MPH) AROUND THE CORE WAS OBSERVED TO BE ABOUT 1/2 MILE WIDE. ALONG BEECHER ROAD WHERE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE OCCURED, F1 DAMAGE WAS AROUND 1/4 TO 1/2 MILE WIDE WITH WEAKER F0 DAMAGE ABOUT 1 MILE WIDE. THE AFOREMENTIONED DAMAGE IS JUST THE MORE NOTABLE DAMAGE THAT WAS OBSERVED. THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TREE DAMAGE ALONG THE ENTIRE PATH OF THE TORNADO, WITH LARGE TREES UPROOTED AND TWISTED OFF IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. 30 TO 50 HOMES SUFFERED MINOR DAMAGE IN ADDITION TO 2 HOMES THAT SAW MORE SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE AND THE 2 MOBILE HOMES THAT WERE DESTROYED. MANY BARNS WERE ALSO DAMAGED AND NUMEROUS SHEDS WERE DESTROYED. MORE INFORMATION, ALONG WITH DAMAGE PHOTOS WILL BE POSTED TO THE NWS BINGHAMTON WEB SITE WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. THE ADDRESS IS: HTTP://WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/ER/BGM LABOUNTY/NICOSIA ---------------------------------- NOUS41 KALY 011932 PNSALY NYZ039-020600- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 332 PM EDT SAT JUN 1 2002 ...TORNADO CONFIRMED AT WHALEY LAKE IN DUTCHESS COUNTY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT ALBANY SENT OUT A STORM SURVEY TEAM TO DUTCHESS COUNTY TO INVESTIGATE STORM DAMAGE FROM FRIDAY MAY 31, 2002. AT 702 PM EDT IN THE VICINITY OF ROUTE 292...THERE WERE NUMEROUS TREES DOWN. ON THE WEST SIDE OF WHALEY LAKE...THERE WAS A SWATH ABOUT 50 YARDS WIDE WITH TREES DOWN. THE TREES WERE DOWN IN MULTIPLE DIRECTIONS WITH THEIR TOPS TWISTED. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETERMINED THIS DAMAGE WAS CAUSED BY AN F0/F1 TORNADO. WINDS WERE ESTIMATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THE LENGTH OF THIS PATH WAS ESTIMATED TO BE ABOUT 100 YARDS LONG. TORNADO DAMAGE WAS ALSO EVIDENT ON THE EAST SIDE OF WHALEY LAKE. THERE WAS A LARGE AREA OF TREES DOWN IN MULTIPLE DIRECTIONS. THE DAMAGE PATH WAS AROUND A HALF A MILE LONG. $$ WESTERGARD, WARNING COORDINATION METEOROLOGIST JOHNSON, METEOROLOGIST WFO ALBANY, NY ------------------------------- NOUS41 KBGM 041936 PNSBGM PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 340 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002 ...MINOR TORNADO DAMAGE FOUND IN SANFORD TOWNSHIP BROOME COUNTY AND ALSO IN WESTERN BROOME COUNTY ALONG BEAN HILL ROAD... ...BOTH TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS OCCURRED FRIDAY MAY 31ST AND HAD MAXIMUM WINDS UP TO AROUND 60 MPH... A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SURVEY TEAM CONCLUDED THAT THERE WAS AN F0 TORNADO TOUCHDOWN ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DEPOSIT NEW YORK IN SANFORD TOWNSHIP FRIDAY MAY 31ST. WIND SPEEDS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS TORNADO WERE ESTIMATED TO BE AROUND 60 MPH WHICH PLACES IT WITHIN THE F0 RANGE OF THE FUJITA TORNADO INTENSITY SCALE. THE TORNADO INITIALLY TOUCHED DOWN CLOSE TO A CAMPGROUND OFF OF H. DECKER ROAD. THE TORNADO THEN TRAVELLED NORTHEAST ACROSS A SMALL LAKE WITH MINOR TREE DAMAGE OBSERVED. AN EYEWITNESS REPORTED SEEING A SWIRLING MASS OF DEBRIS WHICH WAS MAINLY COMPOSED OF LEAVES. HE ALSO SAW A PICNIC TABLE GET LIFTED UP AND THROWN ABOUT 50 YARDS INTO THE LAKE. THE TORNADO TRACKED TO THE NORTHEAST AND LIFTED CLOSE TO BLUEBERRY LAKE IN SANFORD TOWNSHIP. THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE REPORTED TO STRUCTURES FROM THIS TORNADO. THE PATH LENGTH WAS LESS THAN ONE MILE WITH MAXIMUM WIDTH ABOUT 100 YARDS. MOST OF THE DAMAGE FROM THIS TORNADO WAS TO TREES. THERE WAS ANOTHER F0 TORNADO TOUCHDOWN ALONG BEAN HILL ROAD IN WESTERN BROOME COUNTY FRIDAY MAY 31ST. THERE WERE SEVERAL TREES SNAPPED AND TWISTED CONSISTENT WITH AN F0 INTENSITY TORNADO WITH MAXIMUM WINDS ESTIMATED UP TO 60 MPH. THERE WERE NO STRUCTURAL DAMAGES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS TORNADO EVEN THOUGH IT PASSED NEAR A HOME. THIS TORNADO TOUCHDOWN LIKELY WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SAME STORM THAT CAUSED MORE SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE NORTH OF OWEGO IN TIOGA COUNTY. MORE INFORMATION, ALONG WITH DAMAGE PHOTOS WILL BE POSTED TO THE NWS BINGHAMTON WEB SITE WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. THE ADDRESS IS: HTTP://WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/ER/BGM NICOSIA/FIORI