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Although Connecticut tornadoes are typically weak, isolated events can be violent. Three tornadoes of F4 intensity have affected the state in its history, as well as at least 27 tornadoes of F2 intensity or greater. Outbreaks of three or more tornadoes in a single day occurred in 1786, 1787, 1878, 1973, 1989, 1998, 2001, 2018, 2020, and 2021.
Overall, flooding and severe weather events from both days totaled $1.68 million in damage. [84] Five days later, additional rainfall occurred as a result of thunderstorms developing across the state, with a severe thunderstorm watch being issued for all of Connecticut's eight counties as some storms became severe with damaging wind gusts.
Severe storms hit parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut late Sunday night, resulting in at least two people dead, at least 100 people evacuated and Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont declaring a ...
23 August 1916. Torrington, CT. [1] 15 July 1995. Danbury, CT. Lowest Temperature. −32 °F (−36 °C) 16 February 1943. Norfolk, CT “The Ice Box of CT”.
The governor of Connecticut declared a state of emergency after historic flooding left two dead and prompted hundreds of evacuations over the weekend, he said in a Monday news conference.
The most notorious and deadly of these storms is the 1938 New England hurricane which killed between 682 and 800 people. This list includes all tropical cyclones that have resulted in at least 10 deaths in New England. Some storms may be excluded or their death toll may be inaccurate due to a lack of available data at the time.
A high risk severe weather event is the greatest threat level issued by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) for convective weather events in the United States. On the scale from one to five, a high risk is a level five; thus, high risks are issued only when forecasters at the SPC are confident of a major severe weather outbreak.
Although a severe thunderstorm warning was issued at 2:57 pm, very few people received the warnings in time. [4] Eyewitness reports have the tornado ripping the roof off a grocery store in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Trees were uprooted in East Hartford, Connecticut.