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Tornado: Details Released On Strong Twister With 115 MPH Winds That Hit Region Tornado: Details Released On Strong Twister With 115 MPH Winds That Hit Region
Tornado: Details Released On Strong Twister With 115 MPH Winds That Hit Region Detailed information has now been released about a tornado that touched down in New York during a round of isolated, severe thunderstorms over the weekend. The twister tore through an area in the Catskills, in northwestern Sullivan County, at around nightfall Saturday. The tornado, with peak winds of 115 miles per hour, ranked as an EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale or EF Scale, the National Weather Service said. It touched down at around 6:38 p.m. Saturday, April 22, and had a path length of 9.95 miles and a path width of 300 yards. No fatalities and no injuries were reported as a res…

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by Joe Lombardi
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New Tornado Touchdown Confirmed, Bringing Total In NY/CT To Five New Tornado Touchdown Confirmed, Bringing Total In NY/CT To Five
New Tornado Touchdown Confirmed, Bringing Total In NY/CT To Five A second tornado has been confirmed to have touched down in Connecticut during Tuesday's severe storms. The first tornado confirmed was in New Canaan and Norwalk, according to the National Weather Service. It hit New Canaan at 5:29 p.m. and went through Norwalk until 5:41 p.m. Coupled with two tornadoes  in the Hudson Valley and one on Long Island (in Ronkonkoma in Suffolk County), a total of five twisters touched down in downstate New York and Connecticut during the storms. Early Thursday afternoon, the National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado touched down in Mansfield, just sout…

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by Joe Lombardi