Storm Expert: Tornado Damage Path 'Impressive'
MONSON (CBS) - It's still not clear how powerful Wednesday's tornadoes measured on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, but one expert said the damage they left behind is "impressive."
Photos: Tornadoes Tear Through Massachusetts
Allen Dunham, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, is part of two teams touring western and central Massachusetts to learn more about the twisters' speed, force, and exact path.
"It's a fairly impressive damage path," he told WBZ-TV.
"It's a kind of a rarity from my personal experience."
WBZ-TV's Alana Gomez talks to Dunham
The NWS teams are collecting data to determine if the twisters were anywhere from an EF-0, the least powerful, to an EF-5, the most powerful.
Experts believe the tornadoes that hit Wednesday were likely an EF-3 or EF-4.
Less than .1 percent of tornadoes are EF-5's.
The tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri last month was an EF-5.
NWS's Glen Fields talks WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Mark Katic
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Veteran WBZ-TV meteorologist Barry Burbank said he's never seen anything like Wednesday's storms in his 30-plus years of weather forecasting.
"The scope of it is just astonishing, shocking, to see that amount of damage here in New England."
Burbank explains the Enhanced Fujita Scale
