UPDATE: Damaging Wind And Servere Thunderstorm Warning Issued

Gusty southern winds could cause minor tree damage and power outages on Tuesday night through early Wednesday.

Wind gusts as high as 50 miles per hour are expected on Tuesday night into Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. A wind advisory has been issued for 4 p.m. on Tuesday through 6 a.m. on Wednesday. In addition, a severe Thunderstorm Warning has been issued for Tewksbury and all of the Merrimack Valley through 11:15 p.m. Tuesday night. The wins advisory extends across most of eastern Massachusetts, including Tewksbury and the Merrimack Valley, plus parts of Connecticut and Rhode Island. Strong southerly winds of 20-30 miles per hour with gusts up to 50 miles per hour are expected along the coast. The strongest gusts are expected in Tewksbury between 8 p.m. on Tuesday through 6 a.m. on Wednesday. The winds will be strong enough…

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Winter Weather Update

Wild Winter Winds Expected Today

Wind gusts of nearly 50 miles per hour could make conditions hazardous in Tewksbury.

Tewksbury residents are bracing themselves as strong winds are expected to whip through the region throughout Friday. The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous weather outlook for eastern Massachusetts Friday. A rainy and foggy morning is expected to give way to partly sunny skies in the afternoon, but don't let that fool you. That sunshine is also expected to be accompanied by winds of up to 25 miles per hour. And Friday night could be worse, with temperatures dropping below freezing -- turning the wet, puddled roads into ice -- and wind gusts of up to almost 50 miles per hour. In response to the chaos that the region endured after the October storm, National Grid is preparing for the possibility of widespread power outages that…

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UPDATED: Thunderstorms Roll Through Tewksbury, Lightning Strikes Tree

Severe Thunderstorm Watch in effect until 10 p.m.

UPDATED: 5:50 p.m. The National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Tewksbury through 6p.m. A storm rolled through Tewksbury around 5:20 p.m. with a lightning strike destroying a tree on Shawsheen Street. The NWS had identified a line of thunderstorms capable of producing quarter-seized, similar to the type that pelted the region on June 1. In addition, there have been unconfirmed funnel cloud sightings just north of Amherst in the town of Leaverett. It is a fast-moving front, heading east at 50 mph. The NWS is reporting high winds in excess of 60 MPH with this band of thunderstorms and power outages are a possibility. While the warning expires at 6 p.m., a Severe Thunderstorm Watch will remain in effect through 10…

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Storm Knocks Out Power to 3,300 Tewksbury Homes

About 25 percent of the town without power; North Tewksbury hit hardest.

UPDATED 12:30 A.M. About 25 percent of the town was without power for about two hours Friday, as a storm featuring high winds and heavy rain ripped through the region. While the storm didn't do the same level of damage it had the day before in Connecticut, its impact was clearly felt. According to David Graves, a spokesman from National Grid, more than 3,300 customers had lost power between 10:35 a.nm. to 12:30 p.m. Another 2,200 cutomers just over the border in Andover also lost power. Most of the damage was done by falling tree limbs snapping power lines due to high winds. "We were getting gusts of over 40 miles an hour," said Graves. "The rain by itself didn't do any damage but the wind was taking down a lot of trees." By 5 p.m., all …

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