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Two tornadoes touched down in the region as a severe storm system swept through on Wednesday afternoon, April 21.
Late Thursday afternoon, April 22, the National Weather Service confirmed the twisters -- in Amenia, in Dutchess County, New York and in Bulls Bridge to southern Kent in Litchfield County, Connecticut. Both occurred between 2:49 p.m. and 2:51 p.m. Wednesday.
The Amenia tornado was an Enhanced Fujita Scale - EF1 twister with an estimated peak wind speed of 100 miles per hour.
The Litchfield County twister was an EFO tornado with its top wind speed at 85 mph.
StormData shows it was the earliest Connecticut tornado on record. The earliest prior was an F1 that occurred in Tolland County, Connecticut on April 26, 1961. The earliest one in Litchfield County was on May 12, 1959, an F2.