Amid Tuesday's storm, Hull got a waterspout

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Hull resident Lucinda Dixon snapped this waterspout near Peddocks Island late Tuesday afternoon.

Amid Tuesday's storm, Hull got a waterspout
By Lane Lambert
The Patriot Ledger
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Posted Aug. 5, 2015 at 3:58 PM
Updated at 2:13 AM

HULL – While some Hull beach goers hurried for cover when Tuesday’s afternoon storm rolled in, Lucinda Dixon headed in the opposite direction for a round of storm watching – and she got a dramatic snap of a waterspout when she did.

Dixon had parked her Jeep off the shore at Hull Gut around 4 p.m., when she noticed the spout near Peddocks Island, about a half mile away.

“I’ve never seen one before,” she told The Patriot Ledger Wednesday. “It was there for about two minutes and then it just fell apart.”

The National Weather Service’s Taunton office confirmed that it got a report of the waterspout at 4:28 p.m. Tuesday.

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1. Thanks uc. That was one hell of a weird summer storm.

The thunder was so loud, the room I was in seemed to shake. Then the racket--I thought the place was breaking apart. Then I looked out the window and saw large (for hail) chunks of ice. And a waterspout in New England, too, something common in the tropics?