Santa Fe New Mexican

Storm produces tornadoes in Mass.

- By Johnny Diaz

The remnants of Tropical Storm Henri stalled over New England on Monday, dropping yet more rain and spawning three tornadoes in central Massachuse­tts that caused some damage but no deaths or injuries, according to the National Weather Service.

All three tornadoes — the first in Marlboroug­h at 11:40 a.m., the second in Bolton at 12:30 p.m. and the last in Stow at 1:10 p.m. — were EF-0 strength, the lowest intensity for a tornado, with peak winds at about 65 mph, the National Weather Service in Boston said.

Henri was downgraded to a slow-moving post-tropical cyclone Monday evening, a day after it had knocked out power to thousands and caused flooding from New York City to Rhode Island and beyond.

The storm system was about 60 miles north-northeast of New York City at 5 p.m. Monday, and more flooding was possible in parts of southern New England and the northern mid-Atlantic.

It was moving east at 9 mph with maximum sustained winds of 25 mph, but “it’s going to move faster later tonight,” said Dennis Feltgen, a meteorolog­ist at the National Hurricane Center.

He said the greatest effect from the system would be more heavy rain. About 5 to 9 inches of rain had already fallen across northern New Jersey and in the New York metro area. Central Park set a record Saturday for the most rain in a single hour, when 1.94 inches fell between 10 and 11 p.m.

The storm brought as much as 8.19 inches of rain total to Central

Park, making this the second-wettest summer on record there, with nearly 2 feet of rain since June 1, according to the National Weather Service.

The latest rainfall totals also included up to 9.85 inches of rain in Brooklyn and about 8.02 inches in Harrison, N.J.

Henri was expected to drop an additional 1 to 3 inches of rain Monday night, with higher amounts possible in some areas, over portions of Long Island, New England, southeast New York, New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvan­ia.

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