Connecticut

Storms in Connecticut in 1996

292 events in 171 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Connecticut in 1996, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

Connecticut in 1996 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 Connecticut

The year

Events
292
Deaths
5
Injuries
7
Damage
$13 million
Episodes
171

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
Heavy Snow6200$6.1 million
Flood4400$580,000
High Wind3935$2.6 million
Thunderstorm Wind3701$62,000
Heavy Rain2800
Flash Flood2400$1.6 million
Coastal Flood2010
Strong Wind910$16,000
Blizzard800
Winter Storm700$30,000
Hail600$2,000
Winter Weather300
Lightning201$2,000
Tornado200$2.0 million
Funnel Cloud100

Every episode, month by month

January 1996

February 1996

March 1996

April 1996

May 1996

June 1996

July 1996

August 1996

September 1996

October 1996

November 1996

December 1996

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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.