Massachusetts

Storms in Massachusetts in 2013

455 events in 66 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Massachusetts in 2013, 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 2013 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
455
Deaths
4
Injuries
48
Damage
$31 million
Episodes
66

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 Wind8100$504,000
Heavy Snow8000
High Wind5100$1.3 million
Winter Weather46040$800,000
Strong Wind3500$39,000
Hail3503$3.4 million
Flood3302$323,000
Flash Flood2803$505,000
Lightning2400
Blizzard1530$22 million
Coastal Flood1500$2.0 million
Cold/Wind Chill400
Winter Storm300
Heat310
Tornado200$160,000

Every episode, month by month

January 2013

February 2013

March 2013

April 2013

May 2013

June 2013

July 2013

August 2013

September 2013

October 2013

November 2013

December 2013

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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.