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EF1 tornado in New Haven County, Connecticut

Tornado May 15, 2018 · New Haven County, Connecticut

EF1
Rating
7.4 mi
Path length
600 yd
Path width
$100K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 600 yards (0.34 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A tornado touched down near the intersection of Bethany Road and

Bonna Street in Beacon Falls, destroyed a barn in Bethany, and

continued on to just west of Sleeping Giant State Park in Hamden,

where the damage path broadened and became more straight-line in

nature. The tornado left a path of numerous uprooted and snapped

hardwood and pine trees. Based on this information, this tornado

is classified as an EF1 with maximum winds of 110 mph.

The wider storm

An approaching cold front triggered numerous severe thunderstorms over southern Connecticut. These storms produced 2 tornadoes in the Lower Hudson Valley, as well as microbursts and macroburts.

Began near Beacon Falls (41.4385, -73.0466).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 New Haven County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 756716. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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