Tornado warning expires, severe weather threat continues

New Haven, Conn. (WTNH) - A        is reporting 6750 outages and
tornado warning for Tolland        UI is reporting 915.
and Windham counties expired       State Police spokesman J.
at 5:30pm, but the threat of       Paul Vance says there's not
severe weather continues.          much damage reported on state
A severe thunderstorm warning      roads and highways, just a
remains in effect for the          few branches down. He reminds
entire state and with it           motorists not to approach any
comes the threat of hail and       downed wires and/or trees and
damaging winds.                    to report them immediately.
Check the Storm Team 8             The Mancheter Police
forecast                           Department is reporting that
Report It  pictures from           they are experiencing an
around the state show dark         outage of their routine phone
storm clouds, but we have          line. All 911 calls are
received no reports of any         functioning normally and
funnel clouds.                     should be utilized for
As of 11:15pm, CL&P                emergencies.                  

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