GRAY — The National Weather Service said Monday afternoon that a storm survey team confirmed that an EF1 tornado cut a swath from South Paris to Oxford on Saturday.
Damage to numerous trees and structures occurred in a path 300 yards wide at 5:20 p.m. Saturday, the NWS said. The length of the track will be determined late as the survey continues, it said.
The NWS said it received reports of hailstones ranging from three-quarters to two inches in diameter in Oxford, Androscoggin and Kennebec counties from Saturday’s storm.
A tornado also touched down Saturday afternoon at Moose Brook State Park in Gorham, N.H., according to the NWS, cutting a path 40 yards wide and a tenth of a mile long.
The tornadoes were spawned from a giant thunderstorm that crossed upstate New York and northern New England.
Andy Nash of the Weather Service’s Burlington, Vt., office said an EF1 tornado touched down in Craftsbury ata 2:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon. He said winds reached an estimated 80 to 90 mph. It snapped trees and did some roof damage.
Nash said the Vermont tornado was about 250 feet wide and was on the ground for about two-and-a-half miles.
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