EF0 tornado in New Haven County, Connecticut

A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team has confirmed an EF0 Tornado in Branford, CT. A narrow tornado path of 25 yd. width began near Pine Orchard and Oak Hollow Roads and continued northeast...with uprooted hardwood trees showing evidence of a convergent damage pattern. The damage path widened to 300 yards at the Francis Walsh Intermediate School Field...where several light tower generators were all toppled by straight line winds...while the Eastern 100 yards of this area along Sunset Hill Drive continued to show a convergent damage pattern. The tornado continued on toward the top of Whitting Hill Road...where the path narrowed to about 75 yards and where the most intense damage occurred...where some pine trees in a loop at the top of the road were snapped in two. The damage path continued northeast to Gould Road where the tornado apparently lifted just before reaching the Governor John Davis Lodge Turnpike.

The NWS would like to thank Connecticut Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security Headquarters and Region 2 personnel and the Branford Fire Department in assisting in the survey and helping formulate this preliminary damage assessment.

A strong and slow moving frontal boundary, along with a potent mid level disturbance triggered strong to severe thunderstorms which impacted Southern Connecticut. Three tornadoes touched down in Eastern Southern Connecticut.