Tornado, Bristol
- When
- August 6, 1:15 PM EST
- Where
- Bristol County, Westport
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.670, -71.100
Tornado in Massachusetts, August 6, 1997
Photos and eyewitness reports confirmed that a very weak tornado touched down in the Drift Road section of Westport. A few tree tops were broken off.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS BOX wrote it up.
Photos and eyewitness reports confirmed that a very weak tornado touched down in the Drift Road section of Westport. A few tree tops were broken off.
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 32 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:15 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flood in Colorado, August 6, 1997
- Tornado and Wildfire in Washington, August 6 to 26, 1997
- Wildfire in California, August 6 to 14, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 6, 1997
- Flash Flood in New Mexico, August 6, 1997
- Flash Flood in Colorado, August 6, 1997
- Lightning Strikes in Washington, August 6, 1997
- Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, August 6 to 12, 1997
- High Surf in California, August 6 to 7, 1997
- Hail in Rhode Island, August 6, 1997
- Waterspout in Virginia, August 6, 1997
- Funnel Cloud in California, August 6, 1997
More
Every storm in Massachusetts in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Massachusetts, 1997Warnings in Massachusetts, August 1997
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5621393.