As wind speeds picked up, all of Bobby Richard’s patio furniture fell into his pool at his Holden house. Richard’s eldest son suggested that they go into the basement to stay safe.

A tornado warning had been issued for Worcester County.

Once it calmed outside, Richard and his family left their Willow Brook Drive basement and found a massive tree dividing the lawn between him and his next-door neighbor.

And it wasn’t just Richards’s property that had a fallen tree on it. Several homes on Willow Brook Road and the neighboring Bailey Road suffered similar fates, with one house having a tree fall on its roof.

A tornado touched down in Central Massachusetts Saturday, a National Weather Service’s radar confirmed.

The radar showed a tornado in Holden moving east at 40 mph at 4:07 p.m.

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