Tropical Storm in Southern Bristol, Massachusetts

In Fall River at 958 AM EST, Fall River Police reported a tree down on Old Colony Way. In Dartmouth at 1000 AM EST, amateur radio operators reported trees and wires down on Sherman Road. Winds generally were gusting to 40 to 45 mph.

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.