WPRI) — The National Weather Service (NWS) will once again be surveying storm damage on Friday, but this time in Seekonk and Rehoboth.

 

The NWS confirmed that an EF-1 tornado touched down at 11:23 p.m. Wednesday in the area of Breakneck Hill Road in Lincoln. It had a maximum width of about 100 yards and winds of up to 100 mph.

 

It traveled more than four miles through Cumberland before it lifted around 11:30 p.m. near Cushman Road in North Attleboro.

 

Bryce Williams, a meteorologist with NWS, told 12 News that when surveying an area they first look at the radar data to see what kind of wind rotation took place, then they look at how the trees fell.

 

If the trees are laying in the same direction, Williams said it often tells the crew they are looking at straight-line wind damage, like from a microburst. But, if the trees are laid in all different directions or in a circular pattern, that often signifies a tornado.

 

Williams said the NWS got dozens of damage reports, and while the events may surprise some, they are not out of the norm.

 

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