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F1 tornado in Fairfield County, Connecticut

Tornado July 12, 2006 · Fairfield County, Connecticut

F1
Rating
10.0 mi
Whole path
100 yd
Path width
6
Injuries
$12.1M
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Westchester County, New York → Fairfield County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

The wider storm

A tornado moved east to northeast into the Kensico Reservoir Region of extreme eastern Westchester County; across Routes 22 and 120 in the North Castle area.As the tornado entered extreme southwest Fairfield County at 4:01 pm EDT, F1 damage was observed in North Greenwich along Cutler and Bedford Roads, where thousands of large trees were uprooted and snapped off. F0 damage was observed along Riversville Road as the tornado moved east. The tornado apparently lifted as it crossed John Street. A brief touch down may have occurred just north of the Merritt Parkway. The maximum path width across this region was about 100 yards.

Began near North Greenwich (41.1000, -73.7000).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5526085. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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