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First Alert Weather: Yellow Alert up through Wednesday evening for strong storms, wind, hail and small tornado threat
Headline from WHEC Rochester
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – A Yellow Alert remains up through the late hours of Wednesday as more impactful storms are likely to move across Western New York. As of 4:30pm, some impressive storms are forming in southern Ontario, CA and are expected to sustain intensity into western New York.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Threat Tracker has a Yellow Alert Wednesday as a heads up to keep an eye to the sky for heavy weather. A few rounds of storms are possible with heavy rain and flooding a concern. Other issues will be potential damaging wind gusts, hail and even an isolated tornado.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – A Yellow Alert is posted Wednesday for the risk of a couple rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms. The first timeframe we’re monitoring is during the morning hours. A weakening cluster of storms is forecast to enter western New York around sunrise, then continue toward Rochester…
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Warmth, humidity, and favorable dynamics will lead to stormy weather today, with multiple threats. We have a Yellow Alert in effect due to the possibility of these storms becoming severe, with damaging wind gusts and excessive rain being the primary concern.
Elmira, N.Y. (WETM) - Heavy showers moved through the region this morning, but we are not out of the woods yet. We are still under an alert day with a slight risk for strong and severe storms. There is potential for flash flooding, strong and gusty winds, large hail, and even an isolated tornado.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – A Yellow Alert remains up through the late hours of Wednesday as more impactful storms are likely to move across Western New York. As of 4:30pm, some impressive storms are forming in southern Ontario, CA and are expected to sustain intensity into western New York.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — See all of News10NBC’s live coverage from Wednesday as our First Alert Weather team tracks storms throughout the region. Coverage from Wednesday morning Live in Le Roy at 4 p.m. Live at Ellison Park at 4 p.m. Live at Ellison park at 5 p.m. Live in Le Roy at 5 p.m.
ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM)- Impactful and severe weather is possible this evening and overnight, with several weather alerts now in effect. There is a Flood Watch until tomorrow morning, and a Tornado Watch until 11 pm tonight for Chemung, Schuyler, and Steuben Counties in New York.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Our Yellow Alert is ending as the last batch of storms pushes south Wednesday night. We had an extremely active weather day with our first round of severe weather with damage reports early in the morning.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Back to green on the Threat Tracker as Wednesday’s severe weather outbreak is over. Huge storms brought intense lightning, damaging wind, power outages, hail, flooding and possible tornadoes.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Thursday was a busy day for the National Weather Service offices as they were out surveying storm damage from Wednesday to determine if the damage was the result of a tornado. NWS Binghamton confirms a tornado caused some of the damage in Waterloo, with specific details yet to come…
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