{"id":835229,"date":"2026-09-03T16:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/835229\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:46:13","slug":"tornado-warnings-leave-trail-of-damage-and-destruction-across-wny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/835229\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado warnings leave trail of damage and destruction across WNY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WESTERN NEW YORK (WKBW) \u2014 Strong storms ripped across Western New York Wednesday evening, prompting tornado warnings across several counties. <\/p>\n<p>According to outagemap.com, as of 5:40 a.m. on Thursday, around 7,346 people are without power due to the storms. <\/p>\n<p>Allegany- 516Cattaraugus- 1,598Cayuga- 1Chautauqua- 224Cortland- 58Erie- 975Genesee- 1,097Livingston- 561Monroe- 103Niagara- 771Onodaga- 11Ontario- 316Orleans- 756Schenectady- 101Schoharie- 30St. Lawrence- 2Washington- 1Wyoming- 225<\/p>\n<p>For the most up-to-date outages, go to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/outagemap.ny.nationalgridus.com\/reports\/06c8ed31-48c2-4104-a9a2-41f844152ae3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Upstate NY Power Outage Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures and videos shared with 7 News of the damage from viewers. <\/p>\n<p>The following drone footage was taken by Tyler Nicholas in Batavia, NY.<\/p>\n<p>Drone footage of supercell thunderstorm in Batavia<\/p>\n<p>This photo by David Hall was taken in Elba, NY.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788453972_260_.jpeg\" alt=\"David Hall.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>David Hall<\/p>\n<p>This photo by Nicole Palesh Lancellotti Sweeney was taken in North Tonawanda, NY.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788453973_752_.jpeg\" alt=\"Nicole Palesh Lancellotti Sweeney.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nicole Palesh Lancellotti Sweeney<\/p>\n<p>This photo by Roseann Williams was taken in North French, NY.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788453973_471_.jpeg\" alt=\"Roseann Williams.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Roseann Williams<\/p>\n<p>If you have any photos or videos of damage from the severe weather, you can send us an email at News@WKBW.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WESTERN NEW YORK (WKBW) \u2014 Strong storms ripped across Western New York Wednesday evening, prompting tornado warnings across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-835229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}