EF1 tornado, Limerock to Adamsdale, Rhode Island, June 26, 2024

1. EF065 to 85 mph

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. EF2111 to 135 mph

   Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

4. EF3136 to 165 mph

   Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. EF5over 200 mph

   Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

7. Unrated

   The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Rating

EF1

Date

June 26, 2024

Touchdown

10:23 PM CDT (03:23 UTC)

Lifted

10:30 PM CDT (03:30 UTC)

On the ground

7 minutes

Path length

8.6 miles (13.8 km)

Path width

100 yards (91 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$60,000

Counties

Providence and Bristol counties

Touchdown point

41.905, -71.442

Lift-off point

41.935, -71.369

Record number

2406262123-01

28 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS BOX, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 100 mph.

• Some hardwoods topped/snapped. Large uproots.
• 3 large uprooted into house. Others topped/snapped around.

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

Strong storms moved through southern New England overnight bringing a line of very strong winds and a tornado to Rhode Island.

Strong storms moved through southern New England overnight bringing a line of very strong winds, some flash flooding, and two tornados to Massachusetts.

A tornado touched down near Breakneck Hill Road in Lincoln, RI|and traveled to the east-northeast. A number of large hardwood|trees were uprooted, some of which fell onto homes and other|structures in both Lincoln and Cumberland, RI. The tornado|reached maximum intensity of around 100 mph in a few locations.|Other trees were topped and snapped well above the ground. The|maximum width of the tornado was around 100 yards. |The tornado continued to produce tree damage|through Cumberland, RI across the state line into North|Attleboro, MA where it continued to snap and uproot trees before|lifting in the vicinity of Cushman Road.

A tornado touched down in a wooded area west of Steber Way in|Rehoboth, MA. A number of large hardwood and softwood trees were|snapped and uprooted in the woods and in several yards along the|path. Otherwise, there was no significant damage to homes. The|tornado reached a maximum intensity of 90 mph. The maximum width|of the tornado was 50 yards. This was a very short lived tornado|which was only on the ground for one minute.

A tornado touched down near Breakneck Hill Road in Lincoln, RI|and traveled to the east-northeast. A number of large hardwood|trees were uprooted, some of which fell onto homes and other|structures in both Lincoln and Cumberland, RI. The tornado|reached maximum intensity of around 100 mph in a few locations.|Other trees were topped and snapped well above the ground. The|maximum width of the tornado was around 100 yards. |The tornado continued to produce tree damage|through Cumberland, RI across the state line into North|Attleboro, MA where it continued to snap and uproot trees before|lifting in the vicinity of Cushman Road.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

0 minutes of warning. NWS BOX issued a tornado warning for this county at 03:23 UTC, 0 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 03:32 UTC.

The county was under a severe thunderstorm watch, issued at 01:58 UTC and running to 03:55 UTC.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk, with a 0.02 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 01:09 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

The Boston radar (KBOX), 23 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 03:22 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2024 tornado in Rhode IslandEvery tornado in Rhode Island since 1950Warnings in force in Rhode Island nowThe forecast where you are

8 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.