Rhode Island

Storms in Rhode Island in 2022

75 events in 19 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Rhode Island in 2022, 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 2022 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
75
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Damage
$1.1 million
Episodes
19

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
High Wind1100$13,000
Heavy Snow1000
Strong Wind900$2,000
Heavy Rain900
Flash Flood803$1.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind700$13,000
Flood600$18,000
Coastal Flood600$9,000
Blizzard400
Lightning300$7,000
Winter Storm100
High Surf100

Every episode, month by month

January 2022

February 2022

March 2022

April 2022

June 2022

July 2022

August 2022

September 2022

November 2022

December 2022

More

Every year in Rhode IslandEvery state in 2022Tornadoes in Rhode Island in 2022Warnings in Rhode Island in 202220212023

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.