Weather Alerts For Harwinton, CT

# HEADLINE -------------------- A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR LITCHFIELD COUNTY # SUMMARY -------------------- At 627 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near New Preston, or 7 miles northeast of New Milford, moving east at 60 mph. # DETAILS -------------------- HAZARD 60 mph wind gusts. SOURCE Radar indicated. IMPACT Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE Torrington, New Milford, Thomaston, New Hartford, Kent, Sharon, Litchfield, Northwest Harwinton, Oakville, Terryville, New Hartford Center, Woodbury Center, New Preston, Cornwall Bridge, Winsted, Watertown, Plymouth, Woodbury, Harwinton, and Barkhamsted. ISSUED AT Friday, October 16, 2026 at 6:27 PM EDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service Albany NY HEADER Severe Weather Statement # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. # AREAS AFFECTED -------------------- Litchfield CT

# SUMMARY -------------------- THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 687 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN CONNECTICUT THIS WATCH INCLUDES 1 COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT LITCHFIELD IN NEW YORK THIS WATCH INCLUDES 2 COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL NEW YORK DUTCHESS ULSTER THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ARLINGTON, BEACON, KINGSTON, NEW PALTZ, POUGHKEEPSIE, AND TORRINGTON. # DETAILS -------------------- ISSUED AT Friday, October 16, 2026 at 3:51 PM EDT ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY HEADER WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION FOR WATCH 687

Closest strike: 0.51 miles Stay Alert! Remain in a safe area until there has been no lightning within 10 miles of this location for 30 minutes. Please be aware that lightning activity can remain high even when a storm is moving away from your location. Even if rain has stopped, do not leave your safe area until WeatherBug indicates that lightning is more than 10 miles away from this selected location. IF OUTDOORS Avoid water, high ground, and open spaces. Avoid all metal objects including electric wires, fences, and machinery. Find a safe area in a building or in a fully enclosed vehicle with the windows completely shut. Unsafe places include underneath canopies, small picnic or rain shelters, convertibles, or near trees. IF INDOORS Avoid water and stay away from doors and windows. Avoid using a hard line telephone. Take off headphones. Turn off, unplug, and stay away from appliances, computers, power tools, and TV sets. Lightning may strike exterior electric and phone lines, inducing shocks to inside equipment.

There is a Slight Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM PARTS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INTO SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND SUMMARY Thunderstorms capable of producing damaging winds and perhaps a tornado or two are expected across parts of the Mid-Atlantic into southern New England this afternoon and early evening. 20Z Update Only two changes are made to the outlook for this issuance. The first change is to trim the western edge of the slight risk and associated wind and tornado probabilities, to account for the eastward progression of a cold front. The second change is to trim the western edge of the thunder line from much of the Ohio Valley and central Appalachians Mountains.