We lived in CT for several years, while living there a F-4 tornado touched down in October 1979 in Windsor, CT (north of Hartford). An F-4 tornado is rare, but lesser strength tornadoes occur with some frequency throughout CT and other New England states.
I remember being in New Hampshire on business on 1 June 2011, a day when an EF-3 tornado struck Springfield, MA and several other twisters were reported in other parts of New England.
Based on coverage from the Boston TV stations, you’d have thought Armageddon was at hand—or at a minimum, it was a latter-day version of the Great Tri-State Tornado of 1925. As someone who grew up in the Mid-South, and spent much of my life in tornado country, it was funny watching the Yankees get flustered. I’ve often said it’s a good thing tornadoes are rare in New York City because if that metropolis faced the tornado threat of say, Oklahoma City, the media hysteria would be off the charts.