SOUTHERN TIER, N.Y. (WBNG) \u2014 The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch on Wednesday for five Southern Tier counties, according to the National Weather Service out of Binghamton. <\/p>\n
The National Weather Service out of Binghamton issued the watch at 4:41 p.m. and will run until 11 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 2. <\/p>\n
The watch has stretched to include 29 counties in New York, with the following five in our coverage area: <\/p>\n
BroomeCortland Tioga Tompkins Chenango <\/p>\n
The watch was issued as weather conditions could lead to severe storms and tornadoes. <\/p>\n
The New York State Office of Emergency Management recommends residents know their safe locations, ideally a basement or interior room, along with the signs of a tornado. <\/p>\n
Signs include, but aren\u2019t limited to, dark or green skies, a rotating, funnel-shaped cloud, and loud or roaring sounds. <\/p>\n
Residents are asked to act quickly if the watch is upgraded to a warning, or if they suspect a tornado is approaching, the state said. <\/p>\n
The National Weather Service will issue an alert when a tornado has been sighted or indicated by weather radar. If you receive a warning, take action right away. <\/p>\n
Officials said to take shelter in a substantial structure. If one is not available near you, lie flat in a ditch or low spot with your hands shielding your head. <\/p>\n
If inside a structure, go to a basement or interior room on the lowest floor of the building; stay away from windows. Closets, bathrooms, and other interior rooms are the best protection, officials said. <\/p>\n
For more tips and updates, stick with the First Alert Weather Team<\/a> and the state Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 WBNG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHERN TIER, N.Y. (WBNG) \u2014 The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch on Wednesday for five Southern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-336757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}