Connecticut

Storm History: South Central Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut

564 episodes, 1,421 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in South Central 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
1,421
Deaths
21
Injuries
175
Damage
$339 million
Episodes
564

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
Heavy Snow19800
Thunderstorm Wind17915$505,000
Hail16518$399,000
Flash Flood16130$3.6 million
High Wind11622$2.5 million
Winter Weather9820$246,000
Tornado861138$281 million
Winter Storm7604
Strong Wind7602$3.3 million
Flood4810$130,000
Coastal Flood4720
Blizzard4600
Excessive Heat2400
Heavy Rain2001$5,000
Heat1800
Ice Storm1226$7.0 million
Drought1200
Tropical Storm1244$40 million
Lightning1005$25,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800
Cold/Wind Chill600
Storm Surge/Tide200
Rip Current120

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 South Central Connecticut Planning Region, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in South Central Connecticut Planning RegionEvery warning in South Central 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 2026-10-01.