EF1 tornado in Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Tornado August 8, 2023 · Plymouth County, Massachusetts

EF1

Rating

0.9 mi

Path length

300 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A small EF-1 tornado touched down in the town of Mattapoisett Massachusetts

at 11:20 AM EDT. The storm was on the ground for approximately 3 minutes.

The storm moved to the northeast at approximately 20 MPH and lifted off the

ground on North Street just north of Eldorado Drive. Numerous large Pine and

Maple trees were uprooted falling in serveral directions. There were also

numerous pine trees along the path that were snapped off between 10 and 20

feet above the ground. The most concentrated damage was found along Eldorado

Drive by Granada Court. The top wind speed was estimated to be 95 mph.

The wider storm

A trough moved from the eastern Great Lakes into the mid Atlantic then New England on Tuesday. Southern New England was in the warm sector of a weak low which provided enough instability for scattered thunderstorms Tuesday morning into early afternoon before the cold front moved through. There was an EF-1 tornado in Mattapoisett and an EF-0 tornado in Barnstable.

Began near Shell Beach (41.6808, -70.8477).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Barnstable County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1119867. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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