At approximately 2:20 pm, this date, small funnel cloud crossed the area of James Baird State Park in Dutchess County. This is the township of Lagrange which encompasses the Taconic State Parkway. Initially the front was accompanied by heavy rain and sporadic cloud to ground lightning which eventually became a very light green cloud cover, heavy rain, minimal pea size hail and gusty winds...the funnel cloud remained several hundred feet above the tree tops.