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Typical spin up little weaklies around here. 

A tornado is a tornado.  Most tornadoes all over the world are brief spin ups.  A case could be made that there are more

non-mesocyclonic tornadoes than mesocyclonic when you add in all waterspouts.  

What about the dozens that occur when a hurricane makes landfall? -- most are tropical shallow mesos like what occurred in CT today.  If this type of tornado hits your home or car, you wouldn't dismiss them so easily.

Too often people are looking for the EF5 pavement pullers.

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Ive waited 40 yrs to see a TOR. Ill never see one again, . For me it's all about stuff like this. You guys know me. This is what I live for. Sure it was likely an Ef0 and not a huge deal But I will always remember this day. As sick as that sounds. To stand in my driveway and witness that today was unreal.

Awesome day dude...that's a dream to see something like that from your own home. I'd definitely remember that day for a while too.

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Yeah I did. The setup evolved a bit different than I expected. Fwiw the RAP did a nice job showing potential through the day.

Yeah I did. The setup evolved a bit different than I expected. Fwiw the RAP did a nice job showing potential through the day.

Awesome video of the bigger more damaging on in Storrs, Coventry RT 6 area on your TV site http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/weather/stories/Severe-Weather-Moving-Through-214940491.html
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Here is the pic from Instagram -- 56u5.jpg

This is right near Mansfield Drive In at intersection of 32 and 31 in Southern Mansfield... very close to an elementary school as well

Just got an email from a guy at work that his wife's brother took this shot.....small world.....crazy

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Congrats to Kev and company. After living up in that corner of the state for 19 years it's pretty wild that two tornadoes (albeit weak) touched down in the same afternoon.

I was on a couplet in Watertown around 1:30 and thought I might see my first tornado. All I got was some scud and rotating low cloud bases. My initial instinct was that it was a funnel cloud, but I reviewed footage and since I can't confirm it, I'm not going to say I saw one for sure. Either way, it was a wild day. I'll upload a few lightning pics in a bit that I got when I reinterpreted the storm in Windsor.

I would kill to even see what you saw today. Kingdom Tolland seems the place to be for all weather lovers. Monster blizzard, torches, thunderstorms, tornadoes...

 

I've been in a sucker spot the whole summer. This is the summer of dew-m for me. I'll take this FL humidity but it'd be nice to get a few severe t-storms sweep through here. The day of that tornado warning in Essex county I thought was my dream come true only to spawn another disappointing event. We still have a good window for hurricanes though, so there is room for hope because I'm about to toss this summer in regards to severe t-storms, hell even t-storms for that matter. Congrats CT, you win again.

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Weird day. Didn't really play out like I expected.

 

Obviously there was some spinner potential with backed surface winds and a westerly/developing 925/850mb flow around the trough.

 

I did look at the RAP bufkit sounding before leaving work at noon and was sort of intrigued by the setup for late afternoon as hodographs lengthened and LCLs fell. That produced it appears.

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Of course I wasn't in Tolland when the tornado came through... go figure.

 

I went back tonight and surveyed the damage, and it definitely looks like a EF0 path of damage from Loehr to Wonderview to Mountain Spring Road. 

 

It actually took a pretty straight line right over Kevin.

 

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Not as impressive as the Coventry/Mansfield tornado, but tree debris everywhere along that arrow. 

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A tornado is a tornado.  Most tornadoes all over the world are brief spin ups.  A case could be made that there are more

non-mesocyclonic tornadoes than mesocyclonic when you add in all waterspouts.  

What about the dozens that occur when a hurricane makes landfall? -- most are tropical shallow mesos like what occurred in CT today.  If this type of tornado hits your home or car, you wouldn't dismiss them so easily.

Too often people are looking for the EF5 pavement pullers.

 

:weenie:

 

That's what it was, who's dismissing it? You should have strapped on your chase goggles and headed down I-84!

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Of course I wasn't in Tolland when the tornado came through... go figure.

 

I went back tonight and surveyed the damage, and it definitely looks like a EF0 path of damage from Loehr to Wonderview to Mountain Spring Road. 

 

It actually took a pretty straight line right over Kevin.

 

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Not as impressive as the Coventry/Mansfield tornado, but tree debris everywhere along that arrow. 

Nice depiction there. Yeah that's the damage path i saw yesterday. Loehr had the worst damage..That's where I think it could have actually been OTG

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Nice depiction there. Yeah that's the damage path i saw yesterday. Loehr had the worst damage..That's where I think it could have actually been OTG

 

Yeah, Loehr was still closed, but I drove through anyways, lol.  Trees and wires down everywhere where the tornado passed over.

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Did you see this video from Storrs?  3 miles south of the UConn campus:  http://landing.newsinc.com/shared/video.html?freewheel=91085&sitesection=sehartfordcourant&VID=24940237

 

Did you see this video from Storrs?  3 miles south of the UConn campus:  http://landing.newsinc.com/shared/video.html?freewheel=91085&sitesection=sehartfordcourant&VID=24940237

 

There were two storms that had real legit mesos. The one near Union and down by that area near Storrs. 

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