Tornado confirmed in upstate NY with 110 mph winds: Here's where it touched down
The National Weather Service in Buffalo has confirmed that a tornado touched down Monday afternoon in the towns of Great Valley and Humphrey in Cattaraugus County.
The Weather Service survey team confirmed that an EF-1 tornado touched down at 5:37 p.m. between U.S. Highway 219 and Farm Market Road and continued northeast for approximately 2.4 miles.
The twister reached an estimated peak wind of 110 mph and maximum width of 600 yards, according to the Weather Service. The twister was on the ground for approximately four minutes.
Footage of the area shows several heavily damaged houses - including several now without a roof - garages and barns that were flattened and debris strewn across lawns and roads.
Some large tractor trailers and campers were also overturned. Hundreds of trees toppled - some snapped midway up the trunk and others were uprooted entirely.
One entire hillside showed trees sheared off mid-trunk for hundreds of yards.
According to the report, as the tornado traveled northeast, damage became more severe.
Several homes, garages, and structures near the intersection of Sugartown Road and Farm Market Road, Haines Hollow Road and Bonnie Way "either had the full loss of the structure, loss of significant roofing material, or the loss of some of the walls in the upper portion of the structure," according to the report.
This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Tornado confirmed in NY with 110 mph winds: Where it touched down
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