Tropical Storm — Southern Worcester, Massachusetts

2021-08-22 · Southern Worcester, Massachusetts

Event narrative

Winds generally were gusting to 40 to 50 mph. At 1243 PM EST, the ASOS at the Worcester Airport (KORH) recorded a gust to 43 mph. In Worcester at 1 PM EST, a tree was down on Mill Street. In Dudley at 110 PM EST, Fire Department officials reported numerous trees were down throughout town. In Oxford at 118 PM EST, police reported a tree down at the intersectio of Main Street and Clara Barton Road. In Auburn at 137 PM EST, a portion of a large tree fell onto a home on Prospect Street.

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 979817. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.