Maine

Storms in Maine in 1971

20 events in 10 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Maine in 1971, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1996 the record holds tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, without narratives; floods, heat, winter storms and the other kinds begin in 1996.

Maine in 1971 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Maine

The year

Events
20
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Damage
$1.3 million
Episodes
10

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado1101$1.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind800
Hail100

Every episode, month by month

June 1971

July 1971

August 1971

October 1971

November 1971

More

Every year in MaineEvery state in 1971Tornadoes in Maine in 197119701972

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.