Rhode Island

Storms in Rhode Island in 2012

99 events in 23 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Rhode Island in 2012, 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 2012 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
99
Deaths
0
Injuries
4
Damage
$12 million
Episodes
23

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 Wind1700
Winter Weather1400
High Wind1200$10,000
Hail1203$70,000
Heavy Snow1100
Drought900
Flood700$15,000
Flash Flood600$170,000
Lightning400$275,000
Coastal Flood401$11 million
Strong Wind200$7,000
Tornado100$88,000

Every episode, month by month

January 2012

February 2012

April 2012

May 2012

June 2012

July 2012

August 2012

September 2012

October 2012

November 2012

December 2012

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.