Special Weather Statement issued October 16 at 5:54PM EDT by NWS Albany NY
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At 553 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Otis, or 8 miles east of Great Barrington, moving northeast at 30 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include... Becket, Otis, Sandisfield, Tyringham, Otis Wood Lanes, Leisure Lee, Algerie Four Corners, Bonny Rigg Corners, North Otis, Montville, Hephzibah Heights, Becket Center, West Becket, East Otis, Cold Spring, and West Otis. If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to localized poor drainage flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
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- NWS — active weather alerts (Storm)
- Location
- MA, US
- Severity
- Moderate
- area
- Southern Berkshire
- event
- Special Weather Statement
- onset
- 2026-10-16T17:54:00-04:00
- states
- ["MA"]
- urgency
- Expected
- certainty
- Observed
- effective
- 2026-10-16T17:54:00-04:00
- message id
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.02bc3950ab75c815ac1a5ce9e0163bd695d212cb.001.1
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- []
- instruction
- If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to localized poor drainage flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
- message type
- Alert
- freshness minutes
- 60
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