Rhode Island

Storms in Rhode Island in 2023

83 events in 17 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Rhode Island 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.

Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island

The year

Events
83
Deaths
1
Injuries
3
Damage
$335,000
Episodes
17

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
Flash Flood2802$3,000
Thunderstorm Wind2110$11,000
Flood800
High Wind700$6,000
Heavy Snow500
Tornado301$307,000
Coastal Flood300$5,000
Strong Wind200
Hail200
Lightning200$3,000
Rip Current200

Every episode, month by month

January 2023

February 2023

April 2023

June 2023

July 2023

August 2023

September 2023

December 2023

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.