April 16, 2026
Last night during the thunderstorms, there were winds that came through Steuben County, going 40 miles an hour. There were also wind gusts, which went up to 60 miles an hour. Also some hail went along with the storms. The National Weather Service says the following Steuben County locations had heavy rain and strong winds last night: Bath, Urbana, Corning and South Corning, Lindley, Campbell, Woodhull, Hornell and Caton. As a result, there were over a thousand outages last night in Steuben County. Lindley had almost 800 nyseg customers without power. There were also hundreds of nyseg outages in Tuscarora, Woodhull, Erwin, Addison, and Caton. Steuben County Emergency Services says that there was flooding on all kinds of roads in Avoca, Urbana, pultney, wayne, Wheeler, prattsburgh, Cohocton, Fremont and Dansville.
The National Weather Service also says that another round of severe storms is possible this afternoon and evening, with the primary threats being strong to damaging wind gusts and hail, along with secondary threats of flash flooding and a few tornadoes.
