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Yesterday or last night a tornado hit snow ridge in ny. Pictures look pretty bad. Trees down, buildings damaged, etc. Great little mountain. Wishing them the best.
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That level of tornado is rare in the Northeast, but it feels like we've been seeing tornadoes in general a lot more. Philly area has had multiple major tornadoes in the last few years. This year alone has seen a bunch in New England, particularly in VT, NH, and Eastern Mass where they're even more rare. There were two today, in Plymouth and Cape Cod of all places.Confirmed as an EF-3 tornado with 140mph winds and a maximum width of 700 yards that spent 16 miles on the ground, including its trip through Snow Ridge yesterday!
Looks pretty average over the last 50 years, if this is accurate. It certainly does suck when one hits your locality. Or a ski area.That level of tornado is rare in the Northeast, but it feels like we've been seeing tornadoes in general a lot more. Philly area has had multiple major tornadoes in the last few years. This year alone has seen a bunch in New England, particularly in VT, NH, and Eastern Mass where they're even more rare. There were two today, in Plymouth and Cape Cod of all places.
And yes I know we've had tornadoes in the past, it just seems to be more of them in recent years.
I live right across the river from philly, and it seems almost weekly we get a tornado warning, often with shelter in places notifications happening. two years back we had a tornado cause significant damage to the areas just south of me. I have footage from the security camera of a nearby business that shows the tornado breaking up right before it hits my house, than trying to reform in creek i live on.That level of tornado is rare in the Northeast, but it feels like we've been seeing tornadoes in general a lot more. Philly area has had multiple major tornadoes in the last few years. This year alone has seen a bunch in New England, particularly in VT, NH, and Eastern Mass where they're even more rare. There were two today, in Plymouth and Cape Cod of all places.
And yes I know we've had tornadoes in the past, it just seems to be more of them in recent years.
Well, that does not include this year yet. And this year has been very abnormal. NH averages only 2 actual Tornado Warnings a year (doesn't necessarily mean two hit, just radar indicates rotations trigger an alert). This year, we had 4 in just a single day with others having occured on other dates. Those 4 I don't think actually materialized, but you get the idea.Looks pretty average over the last 50 years, if this is accurate. It certainly does suck when one hits your locality. Or a ski area.
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Tornadoes in New Hampshire since 1950
This interactive map pinpoints where a cyclone touched down and traces its path of destruction.data.burlingtonfreepress.com
For sure the warnings are up this year. My phone has gone off with warnings a couple times already for my area, and more broadcast on TV. Still only one tornado as far as I can tell, with somewhere between one or two being average. With all the heat, humidity, and strong storms this summer I'm surprised only one has touched down.Well, that does not include this year yet. And this year has been very abnormal. NH averages only 2 actual Tornado Warnings a year (doesn't necessarily mean two hit, just radar indicates rotations trigger an alert). This year, we had 4 in just a single day with others having occured on other dates. Those 4 I don't think actually materialized, but you get the idea.
Does a microburst travel in a line for 16 miles?Crazy amount of damage for sure. Guessing though that after the National Weather Service surveys things, that they may change it from tornado damge to microburst damage as those trees all look like they fell in the same direction which is more characteristic of a microburst.
Either way, hope that local hill gets things cleaned up and functioning before the season begins!
They have this stuff down. Forecasting and alerting is the cat's meow. It is simply too complicated to nail so they use many different models, but it's a guess.