Holy Sheep! Tornado in Concord. MA last night!

[sheshe2]

‘No injuries. No deaths. Lots of cleanup’ after tornado hits Concord



CONCORD — A rare nighttime tornado, packing winds of up to 100 miles an hour, cut a destructive half-mile path Monday morning, uprooting trees and damaging dozens of homes.

The twister, which touched down around 3:20 a.m., caused significant tree damage and left hundreds of homes without power. But there were no injuries, and somehow just one house sustained significant structural damage, officials said.

“No injuries. No deaths. Lots of cleanup,” said Concord Fire Chief Mark Cotreau, who urged people to stay away from the area because of dangerous downed power lines. Damage was concentrated in the area near Alcott and Independence roads, where trees were uprooted or sheared off at the top by a storm one resident described as “ungodly.”

After assessing the damage Monday to determine whether it was indeed inflicted by a tornado, National Weather Service meteorologist Alan Dunham declared: “I’ve seen enough evidence. This was caused by an EF1 tornado.”

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/08/22/tornado-warning-issued-for-parts-middlesex-county/34Ryiiyh5vVlpkn2pzWvSI/story.html?p1=Article_Recommended_ReadMore_Pos6

Photos: Cleanup in Concord after storms hit











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Night time tornadoes are rare. It hit about 3AM.

[asiliveandbreathe]

1. WOW! no injuries - just a mess - good..

I lived in Mass. born and raised for 45 years..I do not remember a tornado - certainly hurricanes and damaging winds...nor'easters in the winter..but tornado - about the closest was a severe storm in the late seventies , early eighties..after the bliz of '78 - a tree was blown into a house on rt 16 in Holliston - just down the street from us...maybe a microburst -

But a tornado...wow - just wow..be safe all! - I still miss Mass...

We only get haboobs here in AZ - yuk - some bad thunderstorms..can produce micro's- but mostly boringly HOT HOT HOT!!!

thanks for the pics sheshe2

[sheshe2]

2. Me born and raised and still here!

We have had a few. Weird touch downs. Microbursts. Drove through my home town once, one side of the street trees down everywhere. The other side untouched.

I grew up a few towns away from Holliston!

[asiliveandbreathe]

5. That's what I miss..foliage - trees...

greenery - I drove my dad to work in the summer '63 - so mom could have the car - Walpole to Framingham - then we moved to Framingham middle of senior year 63-64 - that went over like a turd in a punchbowl - oh well, all's well - rebellion - hell ya' - but it made me more outgoing....

I miss the last two weeks Aug. over labor day vaca..at the beach somewhere - anywhere - ohhhh I digress...be well -

Hopefully we will see this campaign all come to fruition with Hill as Prez..Tim Kaine seems like a wonderful compliment to the ticket...I can't wait for it to be over...

[sheshe2]

6. I am with ya girl!

[CentralMass]

8. We had an unusually big event in 2011 in Western, Ma.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/06/01/tornadoes-touch-down-in-springfield-westfield/

The tornado caused substantial damage over a 30 miles long and half mile wide swath.

[juxtaposed]

3. It just missed Orchard House, and Hillside House, pretty close to downtown too.

[sheshe2]

4. I knew we had wind and rain here last night...yet

Wow. Glad it missed Orchard and Hill House.

Marlboro got hit as well. It was mild.

[friendly_iconoclast]

7. We do get tornadoes in MA occasionally. Several of them have been deadly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Worcester_tornado

The 1953 Worcester tornado was an extremely powerful tornado that struck the city and surrounding area of Worcester, Massachusetts on June 9, 1953. It was part of the Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence, which occurred over a three-day period from June 6—9, 1953. The storm stayed on the ground for nearly 90 minutes, traveling 48 miles across Central Massachusetts. In total, 94 people were killed, making it the 21st deadliest tornado in the history of the United States. In addition to the fatalities, over 1,000 people were injured and 4,000 buildings were damaged. The tornado caused $52 million in damage, which translates to $349 million today when adjusted for currency inflation. After the Fujita scale was developed in 1971, the storm was classified as "F4", the second highest rating on the scale.

http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_23960358/40-years-ago-today-tornado-ripped-through-west

40 years ago today, a tornado ripped through West Stockbridge

By Derek Gentile, Berkshire Eagle Staff
Posted: 08/28/2013 12:20:50 AM EDT

...The poles didn't snap. But Tonini, and her infant son, Christopher, were near the epicenter of what is still known today as the West Stockbridge Tornado.

It was about 3 p.m. on a warm Tuesday afternoon, 40 years ago today. The tornado touched down and ripped through a six-mile long corridor along the western border of West Stockbridge.

Four people were killed. Thirty-three were injured. The Berkshire Truck Plaza was destroyed. The Berkshire Farm for Boys in Canaan, N.Y., suffered heavy damage. Homes in the path of the tornado were almost obliterated.

"The carnage, the destruction, was hard to imagine unless you saw it," said Lawrence Tonini, Barbara Tonini's husband and the town's assistant fire chief at the time. "It took [West Stockbridge resident] Bill Kie's house right out."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Great_Barrington_tornado

Around 3:30 in the afternoon (Eastern Daylight Time) on May 29, 1995, scattered thunderstorms developed over the Western Catskill Mountains of New York. Over the next few hours the storms moved east, only producing isolated wind and hail. One particular thunderstorm exploded into a supercell upon crossing the Hudson River Valley, due to the presence of higher dew points flowing up the valley from the south and locally enhanced low-level shear. A tornado touched down in Columbia County at 6:40 p.m., producing F2 damage.The tornado lifted off the ground twenty minutes later and the storm moved over the mountains along the New York/Massachusetts border. Shortly after crossing into Massachusetts, the storm dropped the violent Great Barrington, Massachusetts tornado.

The tornado itself touched down around 7:06 p.m. in Great Barrington near the Walter J. Koladza Airport. Near the town line with Monterey, their car was lifted off of Route 23, and tossed 1,000 feet (305 m) into a wooded area. Over one hundred homes and businesses were either damaged or destroyed, including the grandstand at the Great Barrington Fairgrounds.Additionally, twenty-four people (or twenty-seven according to a different source) were injured.

The tornado went for a length of 11.5 miles (19 km) and eventually ended near the town of Monterey.The storm itself killed three people and caused $25 million worth of damage. Three people were killed—two students and a staff member at the private Eagleton School—as they were returning to the campus in Great Barrington.The F4 rating is based entirely on the car that was thrown 1,000 feet. The worst structural damage from this tornado was in the F3 range. The rating of the tornado is sometimes disputed because of this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_New_England_tornado_outbreak#The_Greater_Springfield_tornado

That one killed three people, and did much damage in Springfield, West Springfield, Monson,
Wilbraham, Brimfield, Sturbridge, and Southbridge.

[sheshe2]

10. Senator JFK

AP file


Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, center, accompanied by Dick Mayer, 15, and Melissa Tyler, 14, inspects tornado damage in Shrewsbury, Mass., on June 10, 1953.


http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/05/23/6700671-pictures-of-the-1953-worcester-massachusetts-tornado


Thank you for the reports. It was devastating in 1953. Changed to a class 4.

[CentralMass]

9. Luckily no one was hurt.