Maine tornados

[jeremy wilson]

Wow. Great aerials of the nh nader damage. I wonder how shocked the folks were to have a twister of that magnitude come through there. Looks like a narrow but intense and lengthy damage path. If you could have been in the right place I bet you could've gotten some nice shots.

 

[Miriam Lawrence]

Tornado in Cambridge, VT on July 18th

Slightly OT, perhaps, but seems relevant to the thread... the NWS has confirmed that we had an EF-1 tornado here in Vermont a couple of weeks ago.

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/btv/events/18July2008/

Nothing like ya'll get in the Plains, but we've had some pretty dramatic (and beautiful) storms here this spring and summer.

On the subject of New England tornadoes, my husband was witness to the F-4 tornado that hit New Haven and Hamden, CT back in 1990. He didn't even know what was happening -- I'm the weather weenie, so the fact that the sky was green meant nothing to him -- but he figured out it was something out of the ordinary when the skylights got sucked out of his apartment. When it was over, all of the storefronts directly across the street from his building had been destroyed.

 

[Dave Kaplow]

Slightly OT, perhaps, but seems relevant to the thread... the NWS has confirmed that we had an EF-1 tornado here in Vermont a couple of weeks ago.

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/btv/events/18July2008/

Nothing like ya'll get in the Plains, but we've had some pretty dramatic (and beautiful) storms here this spring and summer.

On the subject of New England tornadoes, my husband was witness to the F-4 tornado that hit New Haven and Hamden, CT back in 1990. He didn't even know what was happening -- I'm the weather weenie, so the fact that the sky was green meant nothing to him -- but he figured out it was something out of the ordinary when the skylights got sucked out of his apartment. When it was over, all of the storefronts directly across the street from his building had been destroyed.

Thanks for posting that VT write up, I spend a lot of time in VT but was unaware there had been a tornado recently. The New Haven F4, which was actually in '89, was what got me interested in chasing. I noticed the quarter to golfball size hail, and I might well have seen the tornado if I had made the effort to look out the window, but for very stupid reasons I just didn't. Afterward I was so upset that I missed it that I decided then and there that seeing a tornado was now a major goal of my life. Since then I've seen my share of tornadoes, mostly on the Plains, but if another storm like the '89 event should hit CT, I'll definitely be ready. It's interesting that while we don't get all that many tornadoes in CT, when we do get them they're often very powerful. The '89 storm, and the '79 F3 near Hartford are perfect examples.