I’m always glad I live in Appalachia. Tornadoes are rare around here, a once in a lifetime for the area thing.
Also rare in upstate NY, this on was 25 years ago:
On 31 May 1998, an F3 tornado struck Mechanicville, New York, injuring 68 people and causing $71 million in damage. The tornado was part of a widespread, severe weather outbreak across the northeast United States. The synoptic conditions that caused the outbreak and the mesoscale and storm-scale environments that produced the tornado are discussed.
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/wefo/20/4/waf875_1.xml