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Tropical Storm in Dukes, Massachusetts

Tropical Storm August 22, 2021 · Dukes, Massachusetts

What the National Weather Service wrote

In Edgartown at 838 AM EST, Atlantic Drive was closed due to storm surge flooding. At 847 AM EST, the ASOS at Martha's Vineyard Airpport (KMVY) recorded a gust to 45 mph. At 921 AM EST, a Weatherflow mesonet site recorded a gust to 46 mph.

The wider storm

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.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

3 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 979787. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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