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No accidents or property injury have been reported in reference to the twister.
Amid critical thunderstorms Sunday, a weak twister briefly touched down in North Brookfield within the late morning, inflicting no accidents or property injury.
The National Weather Service confirmed {that a} 0 EF-level twister, the least intense twister degree doable, traveled about two miles throughout the central Massachusetts city between 10:56 a.m. and 10:59 a.m. It had an estimated max wind pace of 80 mph and was about 250 yards large.
The twister touched down a bit of east of the North Brookfield Waste Water Middle and traveled northeast, ending barely east of the intersection of Ryan and Hillsville Highway, the service mentioned.
The twister solely broken timber, the service mentioned, with probably the most concentrated injury occurring on Ryan Highway simply north of the intersection with Ward Avenue.
“There have been a number of eyewitnesses to the twister, though none of them noticed an precise funnel,” the service wrote in a report. “One witness was in an auto physique store and reported sturdy winds making the storage door bow inward. One other eyewitness, the Fireplace Chief for North Brookfield, noticed particles lofted within the air.”
The North Brookfield Emergency Administration Company indicated that Sunday’s storms brought on energy outages and a number of downed timber.
It’s not unusual for Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island to expertise a number of small tornados every year, NWS meteorologist Alan Dunham mentioned. Normally you want a big thunderstorm, however the storms at this time weren’t as critical, which is why the twister was so small, he mentioned.
Many cities in west Essex and northern Worcester Counties have been underneath a twister watch Sunday, as far west as Townsend and as far east as Tewksbury. However no different cities appear to have skilled a twister.
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