{"id":337591,"date":"2026-09-04T02:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337591\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T02:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:46:17","slug":"three-tornadoes-confirmed-in-western-new-york-by-national-weather-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337591\/","title":{"rendered":"Three tornadoes confirmed in Western New York by National Weather Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three tornadoes have now been confirmed in Genesee, Orleans and Niagara counties.<\/p>\n

The National Weather Service in Buffalo completed a damage survey in response to reports of localized destruction from severe thunderstorms Wednesday.<\/p>\n

MORE: 2 tornado paths confirmed in Seneca County, NWS says<\/a><\/p>\n

In Orleans County, a severe supercell thunderstorm moved in shortly after 6:30 p.m., passing just south of Medina. <\/p>\n

As it moved over East Shelby, a tornado touched down in a field east of Bigford Road and south of Martin Road and continued east through a forested area, uprooting numerous trees and snapping a few before lifting over an open field west of Townline Road.<\/p>\n

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The weather service also investigated storm-related damage from thunderstorms that produced an EF-1 tornado that affected areas east of Alexander near Route 20.<\/p>\n

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East Of Alexander EF-1.png<\/p>\n

Farther southeast, investigators observed a dense cluster of large locust tree trunks snapped in a convergent pattern, which led to a high-end EF-1 rating for that tornado.<\/p>\n

Sporadic tree damage continued near Linden and along Skates Hill Road just north of the Genesee-Wyoming county line, the weather service said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three tornadoes have now been confirmed in Genesee, Orleans and Niagara counties. The National Weather Service in Buffalo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-337591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337591","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=337591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}