Massachusetts

Storms in Massachusetts in 2023

475 events in 59 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Massachusetts in 2023, 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 2023 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
475
Deaths
2
Injuries
5
Damage
$3.2 million
Episodes
59

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 Wind15200$78,000
Flash Flood10201$959,000
Flood7210$1.7 million
Heavy Snow3600$106,000
Strong Wind2200$26,000
High Wind2111$61,000
Lightning1900$11,000
Hail1101$100,000
Tropical Storm1000$12,000
Tornado800$97,000
Coastal Flood700$1,000
Winter Weather500
Winter Storm402
Frost/Freeze400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200

Every episode, month by month

January 2023

February 2023

March 2023

April 2023

May 2023

June 2023

July 2023

August 2023

September 2023

December 2023

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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.