Connecticut

Storm History: Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut

610 episodes, 1,108 events since 1954

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.

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Every year

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.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Hail25600$901,000
Thunderstorm Wind247013$6.9 million
Flash Flood12500$1.3 million
Flood11800$4.9 million
Tornado963507$263 million
Heavy Snow6800$19 million
Strong Wind3614$413,000
High Wind3325$2.2 million
Winter Weather2601$140,000
Winter Storm2600$2.7 million
Heat1400
Heavy Rain1200
Excessive Heat1100
Tropical Storm1110$38 million
Drought900
Lightning5013$10,000
Ice Storm500$2.0 million
Cold/Wind Chill500
Blizzard200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Funnel Cloud100

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

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 tornado in Capitol Planning Region, with its track

Every episode, newest first

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.