National Weather Service confirms tornado in Canandaigua on Monday
CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. — On Tuesday, the National Weather Service in Buffalo sent a crew to Ontario County to survey the damage from Monday’s storm. They confirmed that a tornado touched down in Canandaigua on Monday.
Ontario County is cleaning up after golf ball-sized hail, severe thunderstorms, and downpours.
News10NBC TODAY was live at Kershaw Park in Canandaigua, where a large tree became uprooted and fell over by the lake. There was tape between the fallen tree and the lake.
At Eastern Boulevard in Canandaigua, multiple utility poles were down and a traffic light wasn’t working. We saw crews working to repair the traffic light, lifted up with their truck.
You can see photos that viewers sent in of the storm damage here. The region was also hit by storms last week, with a record number of tornado warnings across Western New York.