Tornado watch until 5pm for Central NY... in October?????

[Cooley Hurd]

Link not available due to Government Shutdown(!!!)

Issued by The National Weather Service
Buffalo, NY
Mon, Oct 7, 2013, 8:58 AM EDT

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 543 IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN NEW YORK THIS WATCH INCLUDES 1 COUNTY
IN CENTRAL NEW YORK
CAYUGA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF... AUBURN AND FAIR HAVEN.

(Yes, I know that info is available via weather.gov, but here's a good example of how the Repigs are putting our lives in danger)

[seabeyond]

1. ya, interesting. being in tornado alley, i have done some reading. interestingly,

during spring the majority of tornadoes goes thru the south. the peak for the north is fall.

i did not know that.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Neither did I...

Tornadoes are virtually non-existent in NYS, but in October??

I lived in Pekin, IL for a spell, and tornado watches and warnings were the norm (including one time in which we had the fire dept cruise thru the neighborhood telling everyone to leave IMMEDIATELY via loudspeakers on their trucks - upon further query, we were told that pets wouldn't be allowed in the shelter, so my wife and I hunkered down in the bathtub with our dogs) .

Here, though, with the exception of one that flipped my great-grand-uncles' mobile home on its roof in 1969, we just don't get them very often (the most recent one I can recall would be Mechanicville, NY - on the Hudson River - in 1998).

[seabeyond]

3. there was one a couple years ago. so surprising. and you are right. just not a norm. nt

[seabeyond]

4. googled.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/html/hazards/weather_tornado.shtml

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Thank you - good info!

...although It only talks about NYC, which is a few degrees longitude south of us.

[JustAnotherGen]

6. One in central nj

Too . . . I want to say in either 1998 or 1999 (lived in Rochester for almost 30 years until 2006) - we had something close to a tornado that actually knocked over a plane at the Airport in the Fall. I only remember because I used to take back roads to avoid 90 to get from where I lived to Bushnell's Basin (where I worked) at I ran into huge issues with trees down because of wet leaves bringing the trees/powerlines down.

[hrmjustin]

8. We had one here in Bay Ridge Brooklyn in 2007.

I saw it pass a few blocks north of me. It killed one person in Staten Island.

[hrmjustin]

7. Thanks for posting. The guy on WABC says a tornado is unlikely but is still possible.