Lee Center had a tornado, too: Just how many tornadoes struck on July 16?

Oneida County had a second tornado on July 16, albeit not as powerful as the one that ripped through Rome, the National Weather Service (NWS) has determined.

The EF-1 tornado with maximum winds of 95 miles per hour struck near Lee Center, touching down at 3:19 p.m. on Palmer Road, about two miles east of Taberg and traveling 6.5 miles, with a maximum width of 200 yards, according to the NWS damage survey.

It continued to the town of Western line where it ended at 3:30 p.m. about one mile south of Beartown and two miles north of Stokes Corner.

Storm of tornados

The National Weather Service has been busy conducting damage surveys since violent thunderstorms moved across Central New York last Tuesday.

It determined that Rome experienced an EF-2 tornado with wind speeds up to 135 miles per hour that severely damaged the roofs and steeples of two churches; caused major damage to two large, brick buildings and sent bricks tumbling down onto parked cars; pushed a recreational vehicle into a parked car; damaged many roofs; and blew out windows and garage doors.

And the village of Canastota also experienced a tornado, although a less powerful EF1, that day that left one man dead.

The NWS Binghamton office has finished all of its damage surveys based on the July 16 storms so there shouldn’t be any more tornadoes declared in Oneida or Madison counties, a meteorologist with the office said.

Two tornadoes also touched down in Herkimer County on July 16, according to the Albany office of the National Weather Service. The first, an EF-1 with winds up to 90 miles per hour, touched down on Snyder Road, southwest of the Town of Ohio at 3:57 p.m.

It traveled 1.5 miles northeast (with a maximum width of 180 yards), crossing Route 8 near Ash Creek Road in Ohio before ending at 4 p.m. It snapped and uprooted trees with the worst damage on Ash Creek Road.

The second touched down east of Little Moose Lake and west of Limekiln Lake near Old Forge at 4:10 p.m. before traveling into Hamilton County and ending at 4:17 p.m. Its peak wind speed along its 4.41-mile path was 100 miles per hour, categorizing it as an EF-1 tornado, according to the NWS.

Chicago storms

The tornadoes and thunderstorms that brought them were related to a storm that had caused widespread damage in the Chicago metropolitan area the day before, according to a report from the NWS Albany office.

An organized line of severe storm began in New York at Lake Ontario and moved eastward in the afternoon and evening, causing significant damage in Central New York, the western and southern Adirondack Mountains, the Mohawk Valley, the Upper Hudson Valley, the Capital District and southern Vermont, according to the NWS.

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“By far” most of the damage east of Oneida County was caused by straight-line winds, not the tornadoes, according to the NWS Albany office.

Here are five more tornadoes, verified by the NWS Albany office, that struck on July 16:

• 4:29 to 4:30 p.m. A tornado touched down for 0.55 miles, causing minor structural damage and brought down trees and utility poles on Route 8 south of Oxbow Lake in Hamilton County. Its 100-mile-per-hour peak winds categorized it as an EF-1 tornado.

• 4:30 to 4:33 p.m. An EF-1 tornado with peak winds of 100 miles per hour struck near Wells in Hamilton County.

• 4:44 to 4:52 p.m. An EF-1 tornado with peak winds of 110 miles per hour traveled 4.13 miles from Hamilton County into Warren County, causing widespread tree damage within the Wilcox Lake Wild Forest.

• 4:48 to 5 p.m. Another EF-1 tornado touched down in Saratoga County, traveling 8.43 miles with peak winds of 110 miles per hour. Most of the damage in the area came from downdraft winds, not the tornado.

• 5:22 to 5:29 p.m. A tornado snapped or downed trees and utility poles along Route 28 just south of The Glen in Warren County and then crossed Interstate 87, causing further tree damage along its 9.92-mile path. The EF-0 tornado has peak wind speeds of 85 miles per hour.

The NWS Albany office also reported a microburst in North Rupert, Vermont on July 16 from the same storm system.

Lee tornado

Here’s the progress of the Lee Center tornado, according to the NWS damage survey:

• It touched down on Palmer Road about two miles east of Taberg, causing minor tree damage and then more tree damage as it neared the intersection of Mitchell and Point Rock Roads.

• The tornado strengthened as it crossed Streun, Sulpher Springs, Harris and Capron roads, causing some structural damage. It shifted one mobile home off its blacks, tore much of the roofing material off and then carried it aloft from Harris Road toward Capron Road. The tornado also lifted and moved slightly a vehicle with the mobile home’s residents inside, but no one was injured.

• On Capron Road, the winds knocked over two trees, which fell onto a residence and an outbuilding. The tornado experienced its strongest winds and widest footprint of tree damage on Capron Road.

• The tornado traveled over the northern end of Podunk Road and crossed Route 26, tearing off half a roof in the area.

• Its damage pattern became more chaotic as the tornado moved along Beartown Road. Winds turned dozens of small and medium-sized branches into missiles and impaled them in the ground in a backyard.

• The tornado ended just over the Town of Western line, about a mile south of Beartown.

For anyone trying to keep track, that’s two tornadoes in Oneida County, one in Madison County, two in Herkimer County and five more, for a total of 10 tornadoes on July 16 in the New York counties served by the NWS Binghamton and Albany offices.

This article originally appeared on Observer-Dispatch: National Weather Service declares Lee Center hit by tornado on July 16