Town Board

Town Board

Members:

Gregory Sacco
Supervisor
Phone: (315) 724-0413 Ext 250
Term: Ends 12/31/2027

David Kolek
Councilperson
Phone: (315) 396-8077
Term: Expires 12/31/2027

Philip Sacco
Councilperson
Phone: (315) 796-2034
Term: Expires: 12/31/2025

Daphne Jones
Councilperson
Phone: (315) 601-4449 Email: goodenough.daphne@gmail.com
Term: Expires: 12/31/2027

Daniel Fusco
Councilperson
Phone: (315) 292-4819
Term: Expires: 12/31/2025

Storm Reporting Information

To report storm damages, send images and/or video files to:

bgm.stormreport@noaa.gov

 

What does reporting storm damage do?

  • In real-time (such as hearing of downed trees/powerlines from trained spotters, pictures of damage sent to bgm.stormreport@noaa.gov or to social media, or heard on county dispatch feeds), reports help put out better warnings.  That is, the National Weather Service can update a warning with statements such as "this storm has a history of wind damage" and also put a new warning ahead of time where the storm is headed, with more confidence.
  • After-the-fact:  Reports help assess if warnings were warranted/went out with lead time, or if NWS missed damaging winds that should've been warned so they can evaluate performance/what the radar looked like/if there was something missed.
  • Also:  Storm impacts eventually get published into the NOAA Storm Events Database, as part of the climatological record. To view all known 371 Oneida County damaing thunderstorm wind events on record from 2000 to May of 2025, click HERE.  

These images and reports help the National Weather Service out of Binghamton and the NOAA assess whether the need for a storm survey is needed/appropriate. Instances where storm reporting would be considered:

  • At request of County or State Emergency Management. We have 24 counties of responsibility, and thus when things are routed directly through Oneida County Emergency Services, we are better able to determine the need for a formal survey
  • Significant impact including fatalities/injuries
  • Strong reason to suspect tornado, such as a tornadic debris signature (TDS) on radar - itself a confirmation, but still need to assess details - or numerous instances of credible tornadic photo/video evidence with known damage

 

 

Severe thunderstorm winds can actually be even more damaging than a tornado, because instead of a narrow short path you can get a large area with swaths of damage and a lot of uprooted or snapped trees/blowdown.  In this case in Oneida County and the June 22nd 2025 storm, we had both the damaging severe winds with more widespread damage throughout much of the county including Deerfield, and the couple of embedded tornadoes associated with very strong rotation on the radar. The line of severe thunderstorms that dropped across the county contained widespread damaging 50-70 mph winds, with corridors even beyond that such as NWS Buffalo's storm survey just across the county line in Lewis County where they found 80-90 mph winds. 

 

Severe thunderstorms of this magnitude can and do cause tornado-like damage.  The key is if the damage converges to a common path as occurs with a tornado (as well as lofting of debris and some of it sticking into the ground), or if instead the damage is laying in mostly the same direction or even diverging, such as this June 22nd example from drone footage in Lewis County that was provided to NWS Buffalo (see attached image).  

 

This information is from NWS Binghamton Warning Coordination Meterologist Mark Pellerito 

 

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