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Tropical Storm in Southern Plymouth, Massachusetts

Tropical Storm September 20, 2017 – September 22, 2017 · Southern Plymouth, Massachusetts

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Damage as recorded

What the National Weather Service wrote

At 453 PM EST on September 20, a tree fell on a moving vehicle on Glen Charlie Road in Wareham. There were numerous reports of trees down. A tree was down on Mill Street, another down on Point Road, and multiple trees down along U.S Route 6 in Marion. A tree was down blocking Burgess Point Road, another down on Barker Road at Puritan Road, a third on Kingwood Street, and a fourth down on a house on White Pine Avenue in Wareham. A large tree was down on Gosnold Street, another on River Road, and a large tree and wires down with a snapped utility pole on Mattapoisett Neck Road in Mattapoisett. A tree was down on Neck Road, another tree blocking Mendall Road, and a large tree down on power lines blocking Dexter Road in Rochester.

The wider storm

Named storm Jose formed over the Tropical Atlantic, moving west and growing to become a Major Hurricane. Jose passed north of the Leeward Islands, then turned on a northward path north of the Dominican Republic. As he moved north, Jose diminished to a Tropical Storm during Tuesday the 19th and then stalled about 150 miles southeast of Nantucket. The storm then slowly drifted south by Friday the 22nd and started to dissipate.

Jose brought strong wind gusts and heavy downpours, primarily to the islands and south coasts of Massachusetts. Rainfall reached about 6 inches on Nantucket, wind gusts reached 62 mph at Nantucket and Aquinnah, and storm surge brought minor coastal flooding to parts of Nantucket.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 721606. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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