EF-3 Tornado in the Albany area yesterday
https://nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?pi...-NOUS41-PNSALY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
424 PM EDT FRI MAY 23 2014
...PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...
...MAY 22ND TORNADO SURVEY INFORMATION...
LOCATION...FROM NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF ROUTE 30 AND DUANESBURG
CHURCHES ROAD...TOWN OF DUANESBURG...SCHENECTADY COUNTY...TO JUST
SOUTHEAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF CROW HILL ROAD AND BOZENKILL
ROAD...TOWN OF KNOX...ALBANY COUNTY...NEW YORK.
DATE...MAY 22ND 2014.
ESTIMATED TIME...333 PM TO 355 PM EDT.
MAXIMUM EF SCALE RATING...EF3.
ESTIMATED MAXIMUM WIND SPEED...140 MPH
ESTIMATED PATH WIDTH...ONE QUARTER OF A MILE
PATH LENGTH...APPROXIMATELY 7 MILES
BEGINNING LAT/LON...42.82/-74.19
ENDING LAT/LON...42.73/-74.15
* FATALITIES...NONE
* INJURIES...NONE
* THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO
CHANGE PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENT AND PUBLICATION IN
NWS STORM DATA.
...SUMMARY...
A TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN WESTERN SCHENECTADY COUNTY ON THURSDAY
MAY 22ND...AND MOVED SOUTH SOUTHEAST INTO FAR NORTHWESTERN ALBANY
COUNTY. NUMEROUS HOMES...BARNS...VEHICLES...TREES AND WIRES WERE
DAMAGED. FOR MOST OF THE PATH LENGTH THE DAMAGE WAS RATED EF1 OR
LESS. HOWEVER...AT ONE LOCATION ALONG ROUTE 20 IN THE TOWN OF
DUANESBURG...DAMAGE WAS RATED EF3 AS A HOUSE WAS NEARLY COMPLETELY
DESTROYED.
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