Strong Wind — Northern Worcester, Massachusetts

2021-08-23 · Northern Worcester, Massachusetts

Event narrative

WATERSPOUT. Location 42.682N 71.974W. A broadcast meteorologist relayed a video that showed a waterspout on Sunset Lake in Ashburnham.

Wider weather episode

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.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 979345. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.