Connecticut Severe Thunderstorm Warning - Severe | Effective 06/12/2026 15:56

Headline: 
Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued June 12 at 6:56PM EDT until June 12 at 7:45PM EDT by NWS Upton NY
Event: 
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
Urgency: 
Immediate
Effective: 
June 12, 2026 - 3:56pm
Expires: 
June 12, 2026 - 4:45pm
Description: 
SVROKX The National Weather Service in Upton NY has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Central Middlesex County in southern Connecticut... New Haven County in southern Connecticut... * Until 745 PM EDT. * At 656 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Waterbury, moving southeast at 20 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Minor hail damage to vehicles is possible. Expect wind damage to trees and power lines. * This severe thunderstorm will be near... Waterbury and Naugatuck around 700 PM EDT. Hamden around 705 PM EDT. Wallingford around 710 PM EDT. North Haven around 715 PM EDT. North Branford around 725 PM EDT. Guilford around 735 PM EDT.
Instruction: 
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Large hail, damaging wind, and continuous cloud to ground lightning are occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
Area Description: 
Middlesex, CT; New Haven, CT
Forcast Office: 
NWS Upton NY