Connecticut

Storms in Connecticut in 2002

168 events in 58 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Connecticut in 2002, 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 2002 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
168
Deaths
5
Injuries
1
Damage
$2.9 million
Episodes
58

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 Wind4301$103,000
Hail3200$53,000
Drought2400
Heavy Snow2100
High Wind1120$20,000
Heavy Rain700
Heat610
Winter Storm500$115,000
Tornado500$80,000
Lightning400$12,000
Frost/Freeze200
Flash Flood200
Ice Storm200$2.5 million
Funnel Cloud100
Wildfire100
Flood100
Rip Current120

Every episode, month by month

January 2002

April 2002

May 2002

June 2002

July 2002

August 2002

September 2002

October 2002

November 2002

December 2002

More

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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.