August 9, 2023
Meteorologist Rob Carolan says we did not have the heavy winds here in Steuben County on Monday, but he says, the national weather service is saying that a tornado touched down in Cortland County and Tompkins County, and Jefferson and Lewis Counties, on Monday. “Well we know it was an EF1 Tornado, so that’s the second strongest tornado, usually that’s winds 90 mph,” Carolan told Wlea. “It was on the ground for 11 miles, it occured two miles west of Hartford, to about three miles south of McGraw. Also, it looks like the strongest tornado was up in Watertown, over the Tug Hill Plateau. That was an EF3 on Monday, down on the ground for 16 miles from Lewis to Turin.”
