A series of fast-moving storms that may have spawned tornadoes and dropped baseball-size hailstones yesterday left thousands of residents in eastern New Hampshire and Massachusetts without power, flooded houses, sparked fires, toppled trees, and damaged hundreds of cars, authorities said.
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Two suspected tornadoes touched down yesterday afternoon in the small town of Wendell in Franklin County , damaging homes and causing power outages, police there said. Last night, 642 homes there still had no power, the result of 20 electrical poles downed during the storm, Judge said. He said lightning strikes triggered fires at several homes .
In Worcester County, the National Weather Service received reports of penny-size hail in Hardwick and fallen trees in Boylston, Oxford, Grafton, and Westborough. In Marblehead, meteorologists said, 3-inch hailstones fell, among the largest ever measured in the state. The biggest hailstones on record were 3.5 inches in diameter and fell during a 1965 storm that hit Ipswich, said William Babcock , a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Taunton.
Lightning strikes sparked about a half-dozen fires and a combination of strong winds and storm surge flipped 40 boats and smashed several docks and gangways at the Corinthian Yacht Club, said Marblehead police Sergeant Detective Marion Keating. The National Weather Service said winds in the area reached 98 miles per hour and may have been from a tornado . 'Masts were thrown through boats like spears," Keating said. ``It looked like a combat zone."
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