For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Continuous cloud to ground lightning is 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.

At 856 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Chaplin, or near Mansfield, moving east at 40 mph. HAZARD...Quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected. Locations impacted include... Mansfield, Windham, Plainfield, Willimantic, Killingly, Coventry, Putnam, Brooklyn, Woodstock, Willington, Columbia, Canterbury, Ashford, Pomfret, Sterling, Chaplin, Hampton, Eastford, and Scotland.