Massachusetts

Storms in Massachusetts in 2001

357 events in 50 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Massachusetts in 2001, 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.

Massachusetts in 2001 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 Massachusetts

The year

Events
357
Deaths
1
Injuries
3
Damage
$39 million
Episodes
50

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 Snow8700$3.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind6800$160,000
Strong Wind4500
Hail4510$1.9 million
Winter Weather3100
Flood2200$15 million
High Wind1701$11,000
Lightning1502$330,000
Flash Flood800$18 million
Excessive Heat800
Winter Storm500
Heavy Rain400
Tornado200$482,000

Every episode, month by month

January 2001

February 2001

March 2001

April 2001

May 2001

June 2001

July 2001

August 2001

September 2001

December 2001

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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.