Funnel Cloud, Worcester
- When
- July 17, 4:10 PM EST
- Where
- Worcester County, Barre
- Reported by
- AIRPLANE PILOT
- Coordinates
- 42.351, -71.908 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hiller Tanner Airport
Funnel Cloud in Massachusetts, July 17, 2000
A pilot at Hiller Tanner Airport spotted a funnel cloud, which remained aloft and dissipated a few minutes later as it headed toward New Braintree.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
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- 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.
A pilot at Hiller Tanner Airport spotted a funnel cloud, which remained aloft and dissipated a few minutes later as it headed toward New Braintree.
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 77 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:08 UTC.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
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The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Mississippi, July 17, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 17, 2000
- Flood in Maine, July 17, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New York, July 17, 2000
- Flash Flooding and Lightning Strike in Colorado, July 17, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 17 to 18, 2000
- Hail in New Mexico, July 17, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 17, 2000
- Wildfire in Oregon, July 17, 2000
- Hail in Colorado, July 17, 2000
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, July 17 to 19, 2000
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Idaho, July 17, 2000
More
Every storm in Massachusetts in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Massachusetts, July 2000
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: 5163819.