Massachusetts

Storms in Massachusetts in 2009

326 events in 68 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Massachusetts in 2009, 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 2009 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

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The year

Events
326
Deaths
1
Injuries
16
Damage
$3.1 million
Episodes
68

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 Snow7300$21,000
Thunderstorm Wind7000$276,000
Hail6704$95,000
High Wind2300$152,000
Winter Weather1903
Flash Flood1608$982,000
Lightning1200
Strong Wind1100$3,000
Flood911$1.1 million
Winter Storm800$30,000
Coastal Flood700$318,000
Frost/Freeze500
Cold/Wind Chill400
Tropical Storm100$10,000
Blizzard100$125,000

Every episode, month by month

January 2009

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March 2009

April 2009

May 2009

June 2009

July 2009

August 2009

September 2009

October 2009

November 2009

December 2009

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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.