Connecticut

Storms in Connecticut in 1997

164 events in 67 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Connecticut in 1997, 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 1997 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
164
Deaths
6
Injuries
6
Damage
$2.6 million
Episodes
67

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 Wind3813$4,000
High Wind2101$12,000
Hail2102$20,000
Strong Wind2000
Heavy Rain1420
Winter Storm1000$1.0 million
Heavy Snow1000$1.0 million
Coastal Flood810
Winter Weather710
Lightning610$60,000
Flash Flood300$524,000
Ice Storm200
Flood200
Heat100
Funnel Cloud100

Every episode, month by month

January 1997

February 1997

March 1997

April 1997

May 1997

June 1997

July 1997

August 1997

September 1997

November 1997

December 1997

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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.