Baroclinic Zone

Peak gust yesterday was 43 kts. There was only about 60min of strongest winds and they were no where near that high. Virtually no rain, Irene peak gust for me was 50kts and the storm lasted far longer with higher sustained winds, which brought more damage. Sandy only had a peak of 41kts but lasted longer as well. I don't recall that much damage with this one Both brought far more rain here which would contribute to trees coming down easier.

Put that in perspective. The Oklahoma City Bombing was 2.5 tons. This was 100 times larger.

Peak gusts were from 4-5 pm. 60mph would have been a whole different animal for sure but it takes a unique storm to get that here. Jan 2005 blizzard was one of them. Peak gust was 50 here. Most gusts were 30-40mph. Rained for about 15min. 0.14”.

Did I write summer? What does the the date have anything to do with what the outcome is? An hour of gusty winds is nothing extraordinary here.

Agree on the impacts here. Benign. We get these type of events a few times a year here.

Hearing a couple streets have been closed nearby. Liberty and Caswell. Strange that I had just passed thru there not to long ago.

0.14” of “rain”. Winds will evaporate that.

Comes in waves. Suns creeping out again. Power still on. Not many limbs down near my house location. Closer to Butterfish I saw a few large branches but no trees.

Sustained winds of 20-30 mph and peak gust of 50 mph. Seems to be winding down.

Nice vis satellite shot.

Peak gust of 33mph

Close. It was Sodium Nitrate

84/72, sustained close to 20 mph, gust to 30 mph. HEP me!

88/72, sustained winds around 7kts and peak of 11kts

Toss em out like candy to the kids on Halloween

That is phenomenal.

Take OT banter to Banter Thread

Lovely 86/73. Winds around 10mph

Suns out, guns out here too.

84/73 here

Nice couplet there. Velocities don''t look huge though.

1st EEE case confirmed in Plymouth County. Middleboro https://www.wcvb.com/article/first-human-eee-case-of-2020-confirmed-in-middleborough-by-massachusetts-health-officials/33504701

MA confirmed 'nado 000 NOUS41 KBOX 040006 PNSBOX CTZ002>004-MAZ002>024-026-RIZ001>008-050015- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON/NORTON MA 806 PM EDT MON AUG 3 2020 ...NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR 8/2/20 TORNADO EVENT IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS... START LOCATION...SANDISFIELD IN BERKSHIRE COUNTY, MA END LOCATION...BLANDFORD IN HAMPDEN COUNTY, MA DATE...AUGUST 2 2020 ESTIMATED TIME...658 PM EDT - 720 PM EDT MAXIMUM EF-SCALE RATING...EF0 ESTIMATED MAXIMUM WIND SPEED...80 MPH MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH...100 YARDS PATH LENGTH...7.8 MILES BEGINNING LAT/LON...42.0911/-73.0769 ENDING LAT/LON...42.1648/-72.9471 * FATALITIES...0 * INJURIES...0 ...SUMMARY... A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SURVEY TEAM CONCLUDED THAT A WEAK, NARROW, BUT RELATIVELY LONG TORNADO OCCURRED DURING THE EVENING ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 2 IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. IT BEGAN IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF SANDISFIELD, MOVED NORTHEAST ACROSS NORTHWEST TOLLAND, AND LIFTED IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF BLANDFORD. DAMAGE WAS MAINLY TO TREES BUT SOME MINOR HOME DAMAGE OCCURRED IN SANDISFIELD. THE EF-SCALE RATING WAS EF-0, WITH ESTIMATED MAXIMUM WIND SPEEDS OF 80 MPH. THE TORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND IN A MAINLY CONTINUOUS PATH FOR 7.8 MILES WITH A MAXIMUM WIDTH OF 100 YARDS. THE TORNADO BEGAN IN SANDISFIELD, JUST WEST OF SOUTH MAIN STREET. SOME TREE DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED ON CARPENTER LANE AND ON SOUTH MAIN STREET AT AND JUST NORTH OF THE MILE 4 MARKER. A HOME THERE HAD ITS UPPER WINDOW BLOWN IN, SHINGLES RIPPED OFF, AND THE PORTICO WAS LIFTED UPWARD, ENABLING THE SUPPORTING POST TO BE SHIFTED OUTWARD. SOME CORN STALKS WERE FLATTENED AND A NEIGHBOR'S FENCE WAS BLOWN DOWN. IN TOLLAND, TREES WERE OBSERVED BLOWN DOWN IN VARIOUS DIRECTIONS FROM EAST OTIS ROAD TO THE WEST SHORE OF TWINING POND, WHERE DRONE FOOTAGE PROVIDED BY AN AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR SHOWED A COUPLE OF DOZEN TREES BLOWN DOWN IN A NARROW SWATH. CONTINUING TO THE NORTHEAST, MANY TREES WERE DOWNED ON BELDEN ROAD AND ON A NARROW PORTION OF SCHOOLHOUSE ROAD JUST NORTH OF BELDEN ROAD. THE DAMAGE BECAME SPORADIC AS IT ENDED WITH SOME WIRES DOWNED IN BLANDFORD, JUST WEST OF THE NORTH END OF THE COBBLE MOUNTAIN RESERVOIR. ONE TREE WAS OBSERVED DOWN NEAR THE BLANDFORD HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT ON OTIS STAGE ROAD (ROUTE 23). THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WOULD LIKE TO THANK AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS FOR THEIR TREMENDOUS HELP IN IDENTIFYING DAMAGE LOCATIONS IN SUCH A SPARSELY POPULATED REGION AND FOR PROVIDING DRONE FOOTAGE FROM TOLLAND, MA. ALSO, THANKS TO POLICE AND FIRE CHIEFS IN THE TOWNS IN QUESTION AND TO THE PEOPLE WITH THE PEOPLE WHO TOOK THE TIME TO SPEAK WITH US IN SANDISFIELD. EF SCALE: THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE CLASSIFIES TORNADOES INTO THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES: EF0...WEAK......65 TO 85 MPH EF1...WEAK......86 TO 110 MPH EF2...STRONG....111 TO 135 MPH EF3...STRONG....136 TO 165 MPH EF4...VIOLENT...166 TO 200 MPH EF5...VIOLENT...>200 MPH * THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENT AND PUBLICATION IN NWS STORM DATA. $$ FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.BOSTON.GOV YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AT @NWSBOSTON

Enjoy your rain, winds, and 'nados out west.

The most exciting part here will be the dust blowing around. Winds don't look that extraordinary. I've seen winter storms with stronger and longer southerly winds.