New Hampshire

Storms in New Hampshire in 1986

52 events in 5 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in New Hampshire in 1986, 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.

New Hampshire in 1986 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 New Hampshire

The year

Events
52
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$3.3 million
Episodes
5

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
Thunderstorm Wind4100
Hail700
Tornado400$3.3 million

Every episode, month by month

May 1986

June 1986

August 1986

More

Every year in New HampshireEvery state in 1986Tornadoes in New Hampshire in 1986Warnings in New Hampshire in 198619851987

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.