Shortly before 5:00 p.m., the tornado moved through Brimfield State Forest where it reached its maximum width of . Thousands of trees were snapped and uprooted in this area. In Brimfield, a total of 192 buildings were damaged by the tornado, including several homes which were completely swept from their foundations. In East Brimfield, the Village Green campground was almost completely destroyed by the tornado. At the campground's trailer park, 95 out of 96 trailers were destroyed. One woman was killed at the trailer park after her RV was overturned by the tornado. Her boyfriend was critically injured; they both declined to vacate when the owners of the campground warned them of the approaching tornado and encouraged them to seek shelter. Losses at the Village Green campground exceeded $1 million. Moving southeast, the tornado then devastated the Quinebaug Cove campground in Brimfield, damaging or destroying an estimated 80 percent of the campground. A bank statement from Brimfield which was displaced by the tornado was found in a Boston 25 News parking lot in Dedham roughly away from Brimfield. Around 5:09 p.m., another tornado warning was issued to include portions of Norfolk County, Massachusetts and Providence County, Rhode Island.
