A tornado did touch down in Kent on Wednesday.  The National Weather Service confirmed that an EF-0 tornado struck in Bulls Bridge to southern Kent shortly before 3pm.  The estimated peak wind gust was 85 miles an hour and cut a path of about a mile long and 30 yards wide. 

The tornado damage was sporadic along Route 7 just north of Bulls Bridge and consisted mostly of downed tree limbs. A few trees were snapped and uprooted. One Spooner Hill Road homeowner lost part of a solid wood fence and a car tent canopy was blown away by the strong winds. 

No damage to buildings was noted.  There were no injuries and no fatalities.  The tornado ended in a forested area east of Spooner Hill Road. 

There was an EF-1 tornado in nearby Amenia, New York. 

Storm Data from the 1950s through today shows the Litchfield County tornado to be earliest Connecticut tornado on record.  The earliest prior was an F1 in Tolland County on April 26 1961.  The earliest in Litchfield County was an F2 on May 12th 1959.