Rhode Island

Storms in Rhode Island in 2009

37 events in 11 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Rhode Island 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.

Rhode Island 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

Open the live radar over Rhode Island

The year

Events
37
Deaths
0
Injuries
9
Damage
$87,000
Episodes
11

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 Snow1600
Flood509$20,000
Flash Flood400$50,000
Hail300
Thunderstorm Wind200$2,000
Lightning200
High Wind200$15,000
Coastal Flood100
High Surf100
Blizzard100

Every episode, month by month

January 2009

March 2009

June 2009

July 2009

August 2009

December 2009

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.