Connecticut

Storm History: Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut

326 episodes, 473 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Northeastern Connecticut 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
473
Deaths
2
Injuries
3
Damage
$28 million
Episodes
326

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
Thunderstorm Wind10810$341,000
Hail8502$351,000
Heavy Snow6500$1.1 million
Tornado4300$2.7 million
Flood3010$860,000
Flash Flood2900$327,000
High Wind2700$712,000
Winter Storm2601$660,000
Winter Weather2000$61,000
Strong Wind1600$26,000
Heavy Rain700
Drought700
Excessive Heat500
Tropical Storm200$21 million
Ice Storm100
Blizzard100
Lightning100$500

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.

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Northeastern Connecticut Planning RegionEvery warning in Northeastern Connecticut 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.