NH gets tornado warnings a couple of time a year on average. There were 4-5 a couple of weeks ago, but those were just radar indicated and nothing materialized. This past Thursday, there was a tornado warning that started in the southwestern part of the state and then continued along a straight line as the cell barreled due east from that point. At the time, it was radar indicated.
Shortly after the tornado warning was put out, a trained weather spotter reported a tornado in the Keene/Swanzey area. Shortly after someone took a video of a rotating wall. Later in Dublin there was a path of destruction that took down trees and wires, shutting down the rt 101 corridor for hours until crews could get it cleared. I had assumed that it was a microburst or straight line winds.
By last night it was confirmed that it was an EF1 tornado. The funnel was the same as had hit the western part of the state, it just didn't stay on the ground so skipped some areas. I also heard it was 200 yards wide, although that isn't in the article.
The article has drone footage of the damage in Dublin. Fortunately no one was hurt, but around the Dublin school there is plenty of damage (not to the buildings), and someone shut down a solar station before it got hit (quick thinking).
Interesting that NH gets that many tornado warnings. I would have guessed they were nearly unknown up there. But then...they were unknown in ABQ until two touched down not far from my house. You probably recall that my parents were at my house and I was watching from the 3rd floor of our building at work. Even small tornadoes can be scary!
Posted by: Cop Car | July 29, 2023 at 07:39 AM
We average 2 tornadoes per year (or 1, depending on source). I would think we have warnings more often than that from radar indication, but I don't see any stats on that.
Naturally, our tornadoes tend to be on the weak side. We also get microbursts on occasion.
That being said, the 4-5 a couple of weeks ago were on the same day, all in different areas of the state at basically the same time (ie, not the same cell), so that was very unusual.
Posted by: bogie | July 30, 2023 at 03:19 AM