Two tornadoes touched down within the Bay State through the weekend’s extreme thunderstorms, based on the Nationwide Climate Service’s Boston workplace.
NWS Boston meteorologists conducting a storm survey decided {that a} transient EF1 twister occurred in Paxton — with a second transient EF1 landing in Holden.
The tornadoes had been related to a extreme thunderstorm that moved throughout Worcester County on Saturday.
“An EF1 tornado is classified as having estimated winds in the 86-110 mph range, although the intensity of the tornadoes in Paxton and Holden are on the lower end of that range,” Nationwide Climate Service’s Boston workplace wrote.
The survey crew additionally examined harm within the cities of Otis and Blandford in western Massachusetts, and didn’t see any proof of a twister in these places.
The survey crew will probably be investigating extra harm round Berlin.
“Today, MEMA personnel joined local officials and the National Weather Service as they conducted post-storm surveys,” the Massachusetts Emergency Administration Company posted. “The @NWSBoston confirmed in a preliminary analysis that brief EF-1 tornadoes occurred in Paxton and Holden on Saturday afternoon.”
The extreme thunderstorms knocked down bushes throughout the area, with some bushes touchdown on properties.
