EF0 tornado in Middlesex County, Massachusetts

In Marlborough, a small, brief tornado touched down just west of I-495 near the Marlborough Water Treatment Center. As it traveled to the northwest, it went over a business park and then dissipated just north of Cedar Hill Street. Several people filmed the tornado and posted it on social media. Per the NWS survey, several eyewitnesses reported seeing tree branches lofted into the air. The tornado took down a tree on Cedar Hill Street, which fell on two cars, with damage to one of them.

Tropical Storm Henri made landfall in southwest Rhode Island around noon on August 22nd, then moved slowly northwestward and westward across northern Connecticut and weakened. Henri brought strong wind gusts and flash flooding. The strongest gusts -- to 70 mph -- occurred along the Rhode Island coast. The worst flash flooding occurred in northeast Connecticut.

As the remnants of Henri moved eastward across southern New England on August 23rd, it spawned three tornadoes and a waterspout in MA and also it caused some renewed flooding.

The highest rainfall totals over the two-day period ranged from 5 to 6 inches in Hartford and Tolland Counties in northern Connecticut and in Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden Counties in western Massachusetts.