The slow-rolling storm system named Henri continued to make its presence known in the northeast Monday afternoon, Should you have just about any questions about exactly where and also how to work with car service in boston, you'll be able to contact us in our web-page. generating a tornado in Massachusetts as it begins to move back out to sea.
The National Weather Service issued three separate tornado warnings in the area from 11.30am to 2.15pm as the storm, now a tropical depression, moved through the central part of Massachusetts.
The agency confirmed that a tornado touched down in the city of Marlborough shortly after 12pm.
There were some reports of damage as a result of the storm, but no injuries NBC 10 reported.
The warnings came as Henri continues to weaken and headed back eastward toward the Atlantic Ocean, bringing with it additional rain.
The NWS warned that up to one to three inches of additional rain could fall in the vicinity around the storm, bringing renewed risk of flooding.
Flash flood warnings are to remain in effect until 8pm Monday across Connecticut, Rhode Island as well as portions of western and central Massachusetts.
Now, utility crews are working to restore power to the nearly 44,000 people from New Jersey to Maine still left without electricity due to the storm. At its peak on Sunday, Henri had knocked out power for more than 140,000 people.
The threat of flooding in the northeast comes as severe weather elsewhere in the country has turned deadly.
At least 22 people, including two toddlers, and the ranch hand of country singer Loretta Lynch, Wayne Spears, were killed after record-breaking rain sent floodwaters surging through Middle Tennessee on Saturday.
The NWS reported that 17 inches of rain fell over parts of the state in a 24-hour period, which if confirmed would set a new state record.
A tornado was confirmed touching down near the City of Marlborough, Massachusetts shortly after 12pm
Just witnessed this tornado on the ground in Marlboro pic.twitter.com/rfl9KxpvLh
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Signs of flooding remained in Milford Connecticut, Monday afternoon, as flash flood warnings remained in place until the evening
The threat of flooding from Tropical Depression Henri remained Monday morning, as the storm slowly made its way through Massachusetts. Some of the most severe flooding hit New Jersey Sunday afternoon and the threat remained Monday. First responders assisted in evacuation efforts in Helmetta, New Jersey. A flash flood warning remains in effect for the region
In Queens, flooding Sunday afternoon caused cars to stall in the streets, and sustained rain continued to fall
The storms in the northeast came as heavy rain elsewhere in the country turned deadly. In Tennessee on Sunday crews were picking through the rubble left by sudden and severe flooding
Flooding remained on Dune Road in the Hampton Bays on eastern Long Island Monday as a flash flood warning from tropical depression Henri remained in effect
A tree uprooted amid Tropical Storm Henri could be seen engulfing a car service in boston in Flatbush, Brooklyn Monday
A flash flood warning was still in effect throughout the region until Monday evening. Cars could be seen moving through flooded portions of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway Monday morning
As of Monday, the center of Henri was lingering over Massachusetts and was expected to move back east before heading out to the Atlantic
More than two dozen were still missing as of Sunday evening, the Waverly City Department of Public safety reported.
'I would expect, given the number of fatalities, that we're going to see mostly recovery efforts at this point rather than rescue efforts,' Tennessee Emergency Management Director Patrick Sheehan said.
Additionally, five people in North Carolina were killed last week in the wake of flooding rains brought by Tropical Depression Fred.
In the northeast, beach towns from the Hamptons on Long Island to Cape Cod in Massachusetts exhaled from being spared the worst of the potential damage Sunday.
At least 22 people were killed in Tennessee's flash floods Saturday, with more than two dozen still unaccounted for
The flood waters came quickly and without warning, sweeping away structures and cars. While they subsided quickly, a full account of the damage was still not clear as of Sunday evening
Swept away in the waters were seven-months-old twins Ryan and Rileigh Rigney (pictured) whose bodies were recovered by authorities after they were pulled from their father
Wayne Spears, the ranch hand for county star Loretta Lynn, pictured left with Spears, was also killed in the the Tennessee floods. She paid a touching tribute to her 'irreplaceable' rancher in a Facebook post announcing his death Sunday
Other areas of New England awaited the storm's return.
The National Hurricane Center said Henri is expected to slow down further and likely stall near the Connecticut-New York state line, before moving back east through New England and eventually pushing out to the Atlantic Ocean.
By Monday morning, the system was moving east at just 1 mph.
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Henri produced 3 to 6 inches of rainfall over many areas Sunday, with isolated higher totals. An additional 1 to 3 inches was forecast through Monday for parts of Long Island, New England, southeast New York, New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania.
New England officials fretted that just a few more inches of precipitation would be a back breaker following a summer of record rainfall.
'The ground is so saturated that it can flood with just another inch of rain,' Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont warned late Sunday.
Henri, which is now a tropical depression, first hit the town of Westerly in Rhode Island at around 12.15pm, and continues to cause severe rains throughout the New England region
In Long Island, New York drivers navigate flash floods caused by Henri that slammed into the East Coast
A car makes its way around a downed tree across a power line on Route 138 in South Kingstown, Rhode Island after Henri passed by the state
A tree felled in Massachusetts Sunday afternoon. Henri remained over the state as of Monday morning as a tropical depression
In the central New Jersey community of Helmetta, some 200 residents fled for higher ground, taking refuge in hotels or with friends and family, as flood waters inundated their homes Sunday.
'It came so quick - in the blink of an eye,' said the town´s mayor, Christopher Slavicek, whose parents were spending the night after fleeing their home. 'Now there´s clean up. So this is far from over.'
Henri came ashore as a tropical storm in Westerly, Rhode Island at around 12.15pm Sunday, the National Hurricane Center reported, with gusts of up to 70 miles per hour and sustained winds of up to 60 miles per hour.
In the lead up and aftermath of the storm's arrival New York City smashed its record for the most rainfall ever recorded there in a single hour.
That record saw 1.