{"id":337607,"date":"2026-09-04T03:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337607\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T03:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:06:34","slug":"new-york-sees-its-17th-tornado-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337607\/","title":{"rendered":"New York sees its 17th tornado in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW YORK (WBNG) \u2014 UPDATE: The National Weather Service has updated the tornado count to 21. <\/p>\n<p>Fayette, Sept. 2, TBDOlcott, Sept. 2, EF-1Alexander-Wyoming, Sept. 2, EF-1Medina-Shelby, Sept. 2, EF-1<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">ORIGINAL STORY: With recent storms lighting up the sky in western New York and the Southern Tier on Wednesday, the state confirmed another tornado, according to information from the National Weather Service. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Since the start of 2026, there have been 17 confirmed tornadoes that\u2019ve touched down across the state, some here in the Southern Tier. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wednesday, Sept. 2, saw another tornado in the Finger Lakes region. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Below is a list of the confirmed tornadoes and their categories: <\/p>\n<p>Machias, March 31, EF-1 Farmersville, April 15, EF-0 Machias, April 15, EF-0 Hammond, May 29, EF-0 Cortland, June 18, EF-0Rock Stream, June 18, EF-1Croghan, June 30, EF-1 Pittsfield, June 30, EF-1Sanford-Hancock, July 18, EF-1 Chenango Forks-Greene, July 21, EF-1 Green-Coventry, July 21, EF-1 Purchase, July 21, EF-0 South Brookfield, July 29, EF-0 Atlantic Beach, Aug 20, EF-1 Gansevoort, Aug 27, EF-0Wilton, Aug. 27, EF-1Near Waterloo, Sept. 2<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The NWS Buffalo and Binghamton were conducting surveys on Sept. 3 in relation to the storms on Wednesday, so more tornadoes could be added based on the results. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For historical reference, from 2001 to 2025, the average number of tornadoes through September in New York was nine. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WBNG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (WBNG) \u2014 UPDATE: The National Weather Service has updated the tornado count to 21. Fayette, Sept.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-337607","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\/337607","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=337607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}