High Wind in Eastern Essex, Massachusetts

High Wind September 30, 2020 · Eastern Essex, Massachusetts

60 mph

Measured gust (52 kt)

$800

Damage as recorded

What the National Weather Service wrote

At 820 AM EDT a mesonet site at Children's Island in Marblehead measured a gust to 61 mph. At 805 AM EDT in Rockport a CWOP station measured a gust to 53 mph. At 822 AM EDT the ASOS at Beverly Airport (KBVY) also measured a gust to 53 mph. In Danvers, at 755 AM a large tree was down on Lane Pkwy.

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 917856. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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