National Weather Service confirms tornado touched down in New Hampshire

DUBLIN, N.H. — The National Weather Service has confirmed that an EF 1 tornado touched down in Southern New Hampshire on Thursday afternoon as severe storms rolled through the region.

A storm survey team from the NWS office in Gray, Maine, said the tornado touched down in Dublin with maximum winds of 90-95 mph, uprooting trees and knocking down power lines around 3 p.m.

“The damage observed by the team to this point is consistent with an EF 1 tornado,” the NWS said in a statement.

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Severe weather that National Weather Service spotters reported as spawning a tornado in New Hampshire’s Chesire County left a trail of debris behind Thursday.

Campers and staff at the Walden School Summer Camp in Dublin told Boston 25 News that lights started flickering as the weather kicked into high gear. Less than a minute later, trees around them came tumbling down as wood panels and other debris swirled in the campus quad.

“We could hear the wind through the building,” said Lucas Blohm. “It was terrifying. There are little kids and there were people shaking and having panic attacks and stuff.”

There were no reported injuries in the tornado.

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