Around 3:30 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time) on May 29, 1995, scattered thunderstorms developed over the Western Catskill Mountains of New York.
[1] The tornado lifted off the ground twenty minutes later and the storm moved over the mountains along the New York/Massachusetts border.
Near the town line with Monterey, a car was lifted off of Route 23, and tossed 1,000 feet (305 m) into a wooded area.
[3] More than 100 homes and businesses were either damaged or destroyed, including the grandstand at the Great Barrington Fairgrounds.
Three people were killed—two students and a staff member at the private Eagleton School—as they were returning to the campus in Great Barrington.