Severe weather rumbled through Central New York Sunday, and a lot of people had their eye on the sky.

It was the latest example of Mother Nature’s fury as across parts of Onondaga, Madison and Oneida Counties, power lines were knocked down and trees were snapped like twigs.

The National Weather Service in Binghamton said late Monday morning that it would not send a team to investigate storm damage in the area. The organization viewed photos and videos, particularly those taken at the New York State Fairgrounds in Geddes and do not believe there was any rotation in the cloud system.

They determined that the damage near the fairgrounds was caused by straight line winds. 

Metcalf says while they look similar, they are totally different.

"A tornado is defined as a lowering that actually touches the ground and starts picking up dust and debris at the surface,” said Metcalf. “Even though it looked like one, it was just a very nasty, nasty thunderstorm.”

Sunday's weather was the perfect recipe for severe weather.

“Had a warm front push through, lots of heat, humidity, and when you get rise in motion and sort of a twisting of the winds higher up in the atmosphere you can definitely have rotations, said Metcalf. “We almost got to 90 degrees off the charts"

All of this caused a spectacular yet dangerous looking cloud formation.

"So a shelf cloud can look like a mothership, and when I saw those images yesterday it was incredible,” Metcalf said. “The cold air ahead of the storm goes down and mixes with the warm air, and it appears to the eye likes it’s rotating. It's just an eerie looking cloud"

Metcalf says our entire region should be ready to see these types of storms which gives more of a reason to keep an eye on the sky.

"Pretty nasty weather is becoming more common here, I wouldn't be surprised, especially given the wind events we've seen, if we see a couple more coming up this spring or this summer," said Metcalf.