A fifth tornado touched down in central Massachusetts during severe storms over the weekend, the National Weather Service said Tuesday.
The agency announced the EF1 tornado touched down in Paxton - separate from another touchdown confirmed in the same community on Monday.
The agency previously confirmed touchdowns in Paxton, Holden, Berlin and Stow, surveying the damage to determine what kind of winds caused the mess.
The tornadoes had winds faster than 86 mph — all four, in Paxton, Holden, Berlin and Stow, were rated as EF1, the weather service said. It announced the tornadoes in two sets of two on Monday, after initially announcing Saturday that radar had confirmed a tornado.
One touchdown was on Richards Avenue, with peak wind speeds around 100 mph. The path was .17 miles long and the width was 50 yards.
The second Paxton touchdown was at South Road, with peak winds around 94 mph. The path was .13 miles long and 100 yards wide.
In Holden, the storm touched down at Willow Brook Road with peak winds around 104 mph, a path of .15 miles and a width of 100 yards.
In Berlin, it hit near Barnes Hill Road, with peak winds at 104 mph, a path of .60 miles and a width of 150 yars.
Finally in Stow, a tornado left damage near Maple Street and continued over Bose Avenue. This one had the longest path at 2.38 miles, a width of 100 yards, and peak winds around 104 mph. It was on the ground for about four minutes from 4:30 p.m. to 4:34 p.m., causing significant tree damage.
There was no tornado damage found in Otis and Blandford in western Massachusetts, which saw its own tornado warnings on Saturday.
An NBC10 Boston drone flew over one area and saw what looked like a path of damaged trees.
National Weather Service Meteorologist Andy Nash explained what their survey team looks at when they arrive on scene to determine if there is a tornado: “I think everyone knows it twists and turns. So, if we see trees that lay across each other, the tops are twisted off, then we suspect it was a tornado.”
Watch our First Alert weather team's coverage of a major storm spawning at least one tornado in Massachusetts on Saturday, as it happened.
The clean-up was underway for two days in Holden. One homeowner described hearing the moment pieces of a tree came down on his house.
“It was a big thud, it really was big... I put my hands up. I thought everything was going to collapse," Dennis Landry said.
“I had two or three trees on my roof here. Another tree fell this way and fell on my neighbor’s house," he added.
In a nearby neighborhood, the Goodnows were also being hit.
“We couldn’t see out the windows and I went to shut the kitchen door and the wind just blew me back," Janna Goodnow said.
There were different types of damage. Goodnow’s yard had more than a half a dozen trees down. Some were toppled over with the roots ripping out huge sections of ground. But just across the yard, one tree was snapped off right at the base.
“It’s like a train. Everyone says that. It is. It hit the house so hard and this house is [from] 1820, so when it hit the house, you knew it was not good," Goodnow said.