A National Weather Service team will survey the damage after a “radar-confirmed” tornado with a debris signature was detected in Holden, near Worcester, as severe storms moved across the state during the weekend.The spin-up happened during a tornado warning Saturday at about 4:15 p.m. StormTeam 5 tools: Alerts | Radar | Map RoomResidents said the radar-confirmed tornado only lasted about three minutes, but the damage it created is devastating.”Twenty-four inch trees were just snapping and rolling over in front of me. It was wild; only lasted like three minutes, but it was utter destruction,” resident Janna Goodnow said.A tree fell on top of a Holden home and landed in the living room. Neighbors said the storm sounded like a freight train, and it was clear the safest place was going to be the basement.”I looked outside and I saw all this wind whipping up trees and stuff, and there was a big maple over there that I saw just getting ripped out of the ground,” Holden resident Matthew Waite said. Video: What is a ‘radar confirmed’ tornado? “I just picked up the kids and was like, ‘Get in the basement,’ and then after waiting like five, 10 minutes, came up and then just saw the damage everywhere,” Holden resident John Peden said.Video: Downed trees, hail as storms move throughLuckily, there were no injuries reported.

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