Connecticut

Storms in Connecticut in 2017

201 events in 72 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Connecticut in 2017, 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 2017 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
201
Deaths
2
Injuries
4
Damage
$1.5 million
Episodes
72

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 Wind4013$79,000
Strong Wind3011$809,000
Hail2300$10,000
Winter Storm2100
Winter Weather1800
High Wind1400$455,000
Heavy Snow1100
Drought1000
Blizzard1000
Lightning700$40,000
Flash Flood600$19,000
Flood500$39,000
Cold/Wind Chill300
Coastal Flood200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

Every episode, month by month

January 2017

February 2017

March 2017

April 2017

May 2017

June 2017

July 2017

August 2017

September 2017

October 2017

November 2017

December 2017

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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.