High Wind — Nantucket, Massachusetts

2022-04-19 · Nantucket, Massachusetts

Event narrative

At 458 AM EDT (358 AM EST), the ASOS at the Nantucket Airport (KACK) recorded a wind gust to 62 mph. No damage was reported on the island.

Wider weather episode

A coastal storm moved northward from the mid-Atlantic coast late on the 18th to interior New England during the pre-dawn morning hours on the 19th. Locally heavy rainfall helped bring down damaging wind gusts from a low-level jet across Rhode Island and southeast Massachusetts. The storm system also brought 1 to 4 inches of snow to the east slopes of the Berkshires in northwest Massachusetts.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1009862. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.