Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Binghamton NY 422 PM EDT Sun May 4 2025 ...NWS Damage Survey for 05/02/25 Microburst Event in Monterey of Schuyler County New York... Estimated Peak Wind: 85 mph Path Length /statute/: 4.14 miles Path Width /maximum/: 1.19 miles Fatalities: 0 Injuries: 1 Start Date: 05/02/2025 Start Time: 06:20 PM EDT Start Location: Near Monterey NY Start Lat/Lon: 42.322 / -77.051 End Date: 05/02/2025 End Time: 06:22 PM EDT End Location: 4 ENE Monterey NY End Lat/Lon: 42.324 / -76.970 Survey Summary: A severe storm produced a microburst near Monterey in Schuyler County of New York around 6:20 PM EDT on Friday, May 2nd, 2025, which produced estimated peak wind speeds of 85 mph. Multiple properties were damaged, including the collapse of a wooden garage, major loss of a metal and wooden barn, major loss of metal roofing on another barn, and a hole from a 2-inch diameter branch that punctured through two doors of a house. Evidence of minor hail damage seen on a house with multiple small holes on the siding, with copious amounts of hail at least one inch in diameter. After the focused microburst ended around 6:22 PM EDT, this storm progressed eastward with additional pockets of estimated wind speeds of 65 to 75 mph, leading to numerous uprooted and snapped trees along a path from southern Montour Falls, Odessa, and Alpine of Schuyler County, into Newfield of Tompkins County, until around 6:52 PM EDT. Some of these trees fell onto properties, and a downed electrical wire caused an injury in Tompkins County. The National Weather Service office in Binghamton New York would like to thank Schuyler County Emergency Management and Tompkins County Emergency Management for their assistance in completing this survey, as well as the impacted residents or property owners who provided their accounts of these events. && Microburst: A convective downdraft with an affected outflow area of less than 2 1/2 miles wide, and peak winds lasting less than 5 minutes. Microbursts may induce dangerous horizontal/vertical wind shears, which can adversely affect aircraft performance and cause property damage. NOTE: The information in this statement is preliminary and subject to change pending final review of the event and publication in NWS Storm Data.
