High Wind in Eastern Norfolk, Massachusetts

High Wind September 30, 2020 · Eastern Norfolk, Massachusetts

72 mph

Measured gust (63 kt)

$4K

Damage as recorded

What the National Weather Service wrote

In Milton, the ASOS at the Blue Hill Observatory (KMQE) recorded a wind gust to 72 mph at 739 AM EDT, after having recording gusts to 70 mph at 648 AM EDT and 60 mph at 5 AM EDT. In Quincy at 622 AM EDT, a tree was down on a car on Elmwood Avenue at Farrington Street.

The wider storm

A cold front produced a fine line of low-topped convection that moved across the region from west to east during the morning. A southerly low level jet of 80 knots at 850 mb, combined with fully leafed trees, helped cause damaging winds. In addition, heavy rain, totaling 2 to 2.75 inches fell in Franklin and Hampshire Counties in western Massachusetts.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 917526. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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