Thunderstorm Wind, Hunterdon
- When
- June 23, 5:45 PM EST
- Where
- Hunterdon County, Lebanon
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 40.630, -74.830
Enormous, 150+(?) year old black walnut, 4812 is a closer shot with an adult man standing next to the uprooted tree trunk which may give you a sense of the sheer size of the tree.
Parts of an entire array of 8 tall trees that all fell over like tin soldiers in a line with roots torn up... All fell at exactly the same angle. 4806 has a person in amongst the fallen trees, which may give an idea of the trees' size.
4818 & 4819 show some of the remaining 12-foot upright fence posts in the midst of the trees that took down other posts along with all of the fencing, and obliterated all the garden plantings they fell on.
Recap of the wind event description I sent earlier|Last night (6/23/17) a tornado or micro bursts skipped through my hillside neighborhood near the end of the heaviest part of the storm's rain fall.. around 6:45pmET. Several very large, very old trees, and lots of medium sized ones were absolutely flattened at the points were it touched down. I have pictures of the tree fall on my street and reports of similar from near neighbors. The points where the wind took the trees down are very small, very well defined areas. There are large, untouched stands of trees immediately around the confined area where concentrated groups of trees came down. The people in the houses at those sites report one very brief, momentary, horrific battering of the wind and immediate tree fall.
Addition: In conversations later in the day my neighbors mentioned that the wind and rain were going sideways.. and that people at the front and the back of the house saw the wind and rain coming from opposite directions, .. as though the house was in the center with wind circling around it.