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Massachusetts isn't really the sort of place you expect to have strong tornadoes, but around 7pm on Memorial Day of 1995 an F3-F4 tornado tore through Great Barrington, MA. The Fairgrounds was completely flattened. Three people were killed. I grew up in a town nearby, and my mother worked in Barrington.
This tornado spurned research into the relationship between tornadogenesis and local topography, which seems to indicate that conditions are pretty good for tornadoes in a local "Hot Spot" extending from the mid-Hudson valley to Berkshire County, Massachusetts and Litchfield County, Connecticut. (Local Tornado Hot Spot)
Damage pictures:
The most eerie damage was in another part of the graveyard--may of the grave stones blew over. It looked incredibly creepy when you drove past it at 6 am every morning.
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