Category talk:Tornadoes of 1998

Two F5 and six F4

F5

• Pleasant Grove, Alabama on April 8
• Lawrence County, Tennessee on April 16

Possible F5 tornadoes

• Wayne County, Tennessee on April 16
• Granite Falls, North Carolina on May 7
• Smithfield, Pennsylvania on June 2

F4 tornadoes

• Comfrey, Minnesota on March 29
• Spencer, South Dakota on May 30
• Frostburg, Maryland on June 2
• Avon, Connecticut on June 11

On February 10, an F3 tornado hit Somerset, Texas. On March 20, a high-end F3 tornado struck Stoneville, North Carolina. On May 31, there were three F3 tornadoes in New York State in Windsor, Mechanicville and Taberg and an F2 in Colonie, New York. There were three more F3 storms in Pennsylvania in Salisbury, Lyons and Conshohocken and three more F2 twisters in Pennsylvania (in Emmaus, Quarryville and Trevose) and three more F2 storms in Washington, Connecticut, Franklin, New Hampshire and North Bennington, Vermont, as well as weak tornadoes in Barre and Milton, Vermont. On June 1, an F2 tornado struck Rahway, New Jersey. The June 2 outbreak produced 45 tornadoes in Pennsylvania, 9 tornadoes in West Virginia, and 5 tornadoes in Western Maryland. The hardest hit areas were Carnegie, Pennsylvania, Bruceton Mills, West Virginia and Frostburg, Maryland. The June 2 outbreak also spawned a deadly tornado in Meshoppen, Pennsylvania that caused 2 deaths and 15 injuries and separate tornadoes in Hughestown and Union City, Pennsylvania. On September 7, an F2 tornado in Hempstead, New York killed 2 and injured 60 and an F1 tornado in Staten Island caused 2 additional deaths and injuries and Manhattan saw its only known tornado, rated an F0. The strongest tornado was an F3 in Brookhaven, New York. The first tornado to hit New York City was an unrated tornado in the Bronx on August 7, 1900 and the strongest was an EF2 in Brooklyn on August 8, 2007. The most recent was an EF1 in Queens on September 8, 2012.--Kevjgav (talk) 15:43, 1 February 2015 (UTC)