Hail, Litchfield
- When
- May 24, 3:20 PM CST
- Where
- Litchfield County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.700, -73.080
Tornadoes and Hail in Connecticut, May 24, 1962
2 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 50
- Property damage
- $5.0 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
2 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, New Haven
- When
- May 24, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- New Haven County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 9.3 mi
- Path width
- 120 yd
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 45 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 41.550, -73.120
Tornado, Hartford
- When
- May 24, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Hartford County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 2.3 mi
- Path width
- 120 yd
- Injuries
- 5 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 41.570, -72.930
The people who died
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado, New Haven | 1962-05-24 | Direct |
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 24, 1962
- Tornado and Hail in New Jersey, May 24, 1962
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 24, 1962
- Tornado and Hail in Pennsylvania, May 24, 1962
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, May 24, 1962
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 24, 1962
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 24, 1962
- Damaging Winds in New York, May 24, 1962
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 24, 1962
- Hail in Massachusetts, May 24, 1962
- Tornado in Wyoming, May 24, 1962
More
Every storm in Connecticut in 1962Every state in 1962This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Connecticut, 1962
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 9986191, 9986192, 9986193.