Tornado In New Hampshire Just Over Vermont Border, And Storm Wrap Up For Monday.

A man caught this tornado on his dash cam Monday
as he drove through Charlestown, New Hampshire
just across the border from Springfield, Vermont.

 The first fairly widespread spell of severe thunderstorms of the season is over, with pockets of damage here and there. 

The most dramatic event with this system was a tornado in Charlestown, New Hampshire, just over the Connecticut River from Springfield, Vermont at around 6:30 p.m. Monday.

YouTuber Silver & Brass caught the tornado on his truck dashcam. As you can see in the video, there's clearly a funnel with strong, swirling winds that eventually hits the truck.  The truck takes little if any damage. 

After the tornado passes, the driver continues down the road and encounters dozens of trees felled by the tornado. 

On Twitter, meteorologist Eric Weglarz said it was the best, clearest video of what is known as a QLCS tornado he's seen in New England.

QLCS stands for Quasi-Linear Convective System, which is a line of storms that has bends and kinks in it. Sometimes, the air will start to spin near one of these kinks, and a tornado results.  That is apparently what happened in Charlestown. 

The tornado appeared to be along Route 11 in Charlestown near the intersection of Route 12A. That puts the twister on the edge of town closest to the Vermont border. Though the storm hasn't been analyzed yet, the path of it doesn't appear to have touched Vermont in any way, so no Vermont tornado.

Meteorologists with the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine are expected in Charlestown today to determine the exact path and strength of this tornado. 

In Vermont, there wasn't anything as dramatic as a tornado, but still, there was storm damage. 

After seeming to start fading in the late afternoon, thunderstorms rejuvenated as the raced northeastward through central and northern Vermont in the evening. 

Warren was hit with what was probably a microburst that tossed down numerous trees and wires. Earlier in the day a storm blew down some trees and wires along Route 22A near Addison, and started a brush fire. 

I'm not sure how the brush fire got going.  Perhaps the storm's rains missed that particular spot, allowing fallen lines to set the small blaze? Not sure. 

Trees were also reported down around Guilford and Athens, in far southern Vermont. 

Power outages across Vermont peaked at about 3,900, according to VTOutages.com

Heavy rain was another factor with these storms.  Flood warnings and flash flood warnings went up in Rutland and Addison counties for a time Monday evening. Though I'm sure there were some eroded driveways and gravel roads in that region, I haven't seen any reports of serious damage.

The rain with these storms overall did more good than harm, as they ended a 10-day dry spell. 

As Roger Hill (@wxeringheights) points out on Twitter, pretty much everybody in Vermont except a few spots in the lower Connecticut River Valley received at least an inch of rain over the past three days. 

Some three day totals were pretty impressive: Brandon, Jeffersonville and Johnson, for instance, each received around four inches of rain between Saturday and last night.

WHAT'S NEXT

If you like variety, this is your week. 

Sunday was cloudy and humid, Monday was active to say the least, and today, we're back to April.  It'll be mostly cloudy, breezy and cool today, with numerous showers around, especially in the  north this afternoon.  The showers won't be particularly heavy, but it will make things feel like a throwback to earlier in the spring. 

Skies will clear and it will be quite cool tonight, with lows close to 40 degrees. The coldest hollows will probably have some frost, but most of us will stay in the safe zone. Barely.

After a cool, but sunny Wednesday, the forecast gets uncertain, but definitely still variable. It seems like some showers will be around Thursday, then it will get warm Friday, possibly hot on Saturday.  A new cold front will bring showers and storms over the weekend, but we don't know precisely when the front will come through. 

Which means we don't know how strong any storms will be, how hot it will get Saturday, and how much it will cool down Sunday and Monday. As usual, stay tuned. 

Videos.

As always, if you don't see an image of the video on your screen, click on the hyperlinks to view. 

First up, here's the tornado and its aftermath from that dash cam by Silver & Brass. The phone conversations between the driver and his wife are also humorous, but note that they are NSFW. 

For a much milder mood, here's a very brief video I took of some very pleasant rains and rumbles of thunder in St. Albans, Vermont last evening.