PROLONGED DAMAGING DOWNBURST, HAVERHILL, MA - JUNE 27, 2008

Posted as current weather observation to http://northeast.nationalweatheronline.com. One of the strongest thunderstorms in recent memory swept through the northern part of Haverhill, Massachusetts on the afternoon of June 27, 2008 at 4:20 PM. This video documents the downburst associated with the storm, which topple trees and tree limbs, knocked out power to many, and produced numerous cloud to ground lightning strikes. Perhaps the most notable feature was the length of the downburst, totaling approximately three and a half minutes.

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Science & Technology

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• thunderstorm
• weather
• downburst
• damaging
• wind
• haverhill
• massachusetts
• microburst

[mcnoyes]

Trees were down all around me! No, you didn't see any trees falling in front of my garage door, but the wires on the opposite side of my house were brought down by the falling tree, and there was a 3 foot diameter tree downed a few houses away. Definitely a prolonged downburst - I'm a meteorologist so there's no question here about what a downburst is - but the difference is that it's a NEW ENGLAND downburst. That's why there are such varying comments by region here. We pale in comparison.

[superbaron1]

@mcnoyes We had one of these in Missouri about 5 years ago, or what I believe was a microburst anyway. The odd part is that it lasted for 45 minutes. My grandpa, 80 years old, said he'd never seen anything like that before. I was always under the impression that microburst/downbursts were rather short duration. The winds were definitely straight-line and probably 80-85mph, sustained. Trashed the electrical infrastructure, tore down trees and made a general mess.

[dynishand]

New England "Downbursts" are no more than heavy rainfall apparently. I've seen thunderstorms worse than this.

[SK8wormtown]

@mcnoyes buddy there wasnt a 3 foot diameter tree down from tht wind it would talk alot more than that

[This19]

Does anyone know where I can get archived daily weather info for the early 1900's in Haverhill, MA without having to pay the absurd money some websites are asking for? I can't find anything before the 1940's.

[KingTreonn]

@Maincontrol999 the news said downburst

[Zima4184]

Bravo beautifully

[clappinmonkey09]

i remember this storm.. i watched it from my back porch with my dad and sis, while it was at its strongest, a bolt of lightning landing right in front of us in our back yard with an extremely loud bang and being a fan of severe weather, i found it very cool as for my sis not so much lol

[aquaman1227]

I don't know if that was a downburst for the whole 3.5min but, for about half a minute I was noticing wind characteristics of one. Seemed more like heavy rain and winds for the majority of the video, could just be that you can't see much detail when your not there yourself though.

[flounder75x]

Nice weather video. Next time, if i may advise u, try not to move the camera too fast. thanks for a very nice video.

[westvil1]

this was NOT a downburst.