Storm History: Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.
The record
- Events
- 1,108
- Deaths
- 7
- Injuries
- 543
- Damage
- $341 million
- Episodes
- 610
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 256 | 0 | 0 | $901,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 247 | 0 | 13 | $6.9 million |
| Flash Flood | 125 | 0 | 0 | $1.3 million |
| Flood | 118 | 0 | 0 | $4.9 million |
| Tornado | 96 | 3 | 507 | $263 million |
| Heavy Snow | 68 | 0 | 0 | $19 million |
| Strong Wind | 36 | 1 | 4 | $413,000 |
| High Wind | 33 | 2 | 5 | $2.2 million |
| Winter Weather | 26 | 0 | 1 | $140,000 |
| Winter Storm | 26 | 0 | 0 | $2.7 million |
| Heat | 14 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Rain | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tropical Storm | 11 | 1 | 0 | $38 million |
| Drought | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 5 | 0 | 13 | $10,000 |
| Ice Storm | 5 | 0 | 0 | $2.0 million |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Funnel Cloud | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, October 3, 1979
- Tropical Storm, August 28, 2011
- Tropical Storm, August 4, 2020
- Heavy Snow, October 29, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 2, 2018
- Tornado, July 1, 2013
- Heavy Snow, March 5, 2001
- Flood, October 15, 2005
- Heavy Snow, December 7, 1996
- Tornado, May 24, 1962
- Tornado, September 6, 1973
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2011
- Ice Storm, November 16, 2002
- Heavy Snow, March 9, 2001
- Tornado, June 26, 2009
- High Wind, October 29, 2012
- Tornado, July 21, 2010
- Tropical Storm, August 22, 2021
- High Wind, February 25, 1996
- Heavy Snow, April 1, 1997
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
The strongest tornadoes
Every episode, newest first
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 6, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 19, 2026
- Heavy Snow, February 22, 2026
- Heavy Snow, January 25, 2026
- High Wind, December 19, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 6, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 13, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 20, 2025
- Flash Flood, July 14, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 8, 2025
- Hail, July 3, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 19, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 3, 2025
- Hail, August 26, 2024
- Flash Flood, August 18, 2024
- Hail, August 15, 2024
- Hail, August 2, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 16, 2024
- Flash Flood, June 30, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 26, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 23, 2024
- Hail, June 22, 2024
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2024
- Heavy Snow, February 13, 2024
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 2024
- Tornado, September 13, 2023
- Hail, September 8, 2023
- Tornado, August 18, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 2023
- Flash Flood, July 25, 2023
- Flash Flood, July 21, 2023
- Flash Flood, July 16, 2023
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2023
- Flash Flood, July 3, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 2023
- Heavy Snow, March 13, 2023
- Heavy Snow, February 27, 2023
- Strong Wind, December 23, 2022
- Strong Wind, November 30, 2022
- Strong Wind, November 11, 2022
- Flood, August 26, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 7, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 21, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 12, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 16, 2022
- Heavy Snow, January 28, 2022
- Heavy Snow, January 7, 2022
- Tornado, November 13, 2021
- Flash Flood, September 2, 2021
- Tropical Storm, August 22, 2021
- Tornado, August 19, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 12, 2021
- Tropical Storm, July 9, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 6, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 30, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 29, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 8, 2021
- Flash Flood, June 4, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 21, 2021
- Strong Wind, March 14, 2021
- High Wind, March 2, 2021
- Heavy Snow, February 7, 2021
- Heavy Snow, February 1, 2021
- High Wind, December 25, 2020
- Heavy Snow, December 16, 2020
- Strong Wind, November 30, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 15, 2020
- Strong Wind, November 2, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 7, 2020
- Tropical Storm, August 4, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 2, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 23, 2020
- Hail, July 6, 2020
- Flash Flood, July 3, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 29, 2020
- Hail, May 11, 2020
- Strong Wind, May 9, 2020
- High Wind, April 13, 2020
- Heavy Snow, December 1, 2019
- Strong Wind, November 28, 2019
- Tornado, September 4, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 21, 2019
- Flash Flood, August 7, 2019
- Flood, July 31, 2019
- Flood, July 17, 2019
- Winter Storm, March 3, 2019
- High Wind, February 25, 2019
- Winter Weather, February 12, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 21, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 19, 2019
- Flood, December 21, 2018
- Heavy Snow, November 15, 2018
- Strong Wind, October 27, 2018
- Tornado, October 2, 2018
- Flood, September 12, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 6, 2018
- Flash Flood, August 7, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 2, 2018
- Tornado, July 17, 2018
- Excessive Heat, July 1, 2018
- Hail, May 15, 2018
- Flood, April 16, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 13, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 7, 2018
- Winter Weather, February 7, 2018
- Flood, January 12, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 4, 2018
- Winter Weather, December 24, 2017
- Winter Weather, December 23, 2017
- Winter Storm, December 9, 2017
- Flood, October 29, 2017
- Flood, October 24, 2017
- Flash Flood, August 2, 2017
- Hail, July 12, 2017
- Hail, July 12, 2017
- Flood, June 30, 2017
- Hail, June 27, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 19, 2017
- Lightning, April 6, 2017
- Drought, April 1, 2017
- Strong Wind, March 22, 2017
- Heavy Snow, March 14, 2017
- High Wind, March 2, 2017
- Drought, March 1, 2017
- High Wind, February 13, 2017
- Winter Storm, February 9, 2017
- Drought, February 1, 2017
- Drought, January 1, 2017
- Winter Storm, December 17, 2016
- Strong Wind, December 15, 2016
- Drought, December 1, 2016
- Strong Wind, November 11, 2016
- Drought, November 1, 2016
- Drought, October 1, 2016
- Drought, September 13, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 11, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 13, 2016
- Flood, August 11, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 22, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 18, 2016
- Winter Weather, April 4, 2016
- Winter Weather, April 3, 2016
- Winter Weather, March 21, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 17, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 24, 2016
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 14, 2016
- Winter Weather, February 8, 2016
- Heavy Snow, February 5, 2016
- Heavy Snow, January 23, 2016
- Winter Weather, December 29, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 13, 2015
- Flood, August 25, 2015
- Flood, July 30, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 23, 2015
- Flood, May 31, 2015
- Strong Wind, April 4, 2015
- High Wind, March 17, 2015
- Winter Weather, March 1, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 21, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 8, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 2, 2015
- Heavy Snow, January 26, 2015
- Winter Weather, January 18, 2015
- Winter Weather, December 9, 2014
- Heavy Snow, November 26, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 8, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 28, 2014
- Hail, July 27, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 9, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 3, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 2014
- Heavy Snow, February 13, 2014
- Heavy Snow, February 5, 2014
- Heavy Snow, January 2, 2014
- Heavy Snow, December 14, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 1, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 7, 2013
- Flood, September 2, 2013
- Flash Flood, August 9, 2013
- Tornado, July 10, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 2013
- Tornado, July 1, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 18, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 17, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 29, 2013
- Hail, May 21, 2013
- Winter Weather, March 18, 2013
- Heavy Snow, March 7, 2013
- Blizzard, February 8, 2013
- High Wind, January 31, 2013
- Heavy Snow, December 29, 2012
- Heavy Snow, November 7, 2012
- High Wind, October 29, 2012
- Flood, September 18, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 8, 2012
- Flood, August 10, 2012
- Flood, August 5, 2012
- Flash Flood, July 28, 2012
- Hail, July 18, 2012
- Flood, June 22, 2012
- Drought, April 12, 2012
- Winter Weather, February 29, 2012
- Winter Weather, February 24, 2012
- Winter Weather, January 21, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 21, 2011
- Heavy Snow, October 29, 2011
- Flash Flood, September 8, 2011
- Tropical Storm, August 28, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 21, 2011
- Hail, August 1, 2011
- Hail, July 26, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 22, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 21, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 6, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 9, 2011
- Flood, March 7, 2011
- High Wind, February 19, 2011
- Hail, February 18, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2011
- Heavy Snow, January 26, 2011
- Heavy Snow, January 11, 2011
- Heavy Snow, January 7, 2011
- Winter Storm, December 26, 2010
- High Wind, December 1, 2010
- Strong Wind, October 15, 2010
- Strong Wind, October 1, 2010
- Tornado, July 21, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 17, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 16, 2010
- Excessive Heat, July 6, 2010
- Hail, June 6, 2010
- Hail, June 5, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 1, 2010
- Hail, May 26, 2010
- Strong Wind, May 8, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 4, 2010
- Strong Wind, April 29, 2010
- High Wind, January 25, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 21, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 31, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 2009
- Hail, July 26, 2009
- Hail, July 7, 2009
- Hail, June 30, 2009
- Tornado, June 26, 2009
- Hail, May 24, 2009
- Heavy Snow, March 1, 2009
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Capitol Planning RegionEvery warning in Capitol Planning Region since 1986Every county in Connecticut
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.