Connecticut

Storm History: Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut

388 episodes, 656 events since 1963

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Southeastern 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
656
Deaths
4
Injuries
28
Damage
$14 million
Episodes
388

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
Flash Flood10202$824,000
Hail10003$175,000
Thunderstorm Wind8328$214,000
Heavy Snow8100
High Wind5801$2.0 million
Flood4311$6.6 million
Winter Weather3000
Blizzard2700
Winter Storm2600
Strong Wind2300$820,000
Tornado1800$90,000
Heavy Rain1400
Coastal Flood1000
Tropical Storm900$3.0 million
Lightning7113$14,000
Drought600
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Heat400
Excessive Heat400
Cold/Wind Chill200
Ice Storm200
Storm Surge/Tide100
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.

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Southeastern Connecticut Planning RegionEvery warning in Southeastern 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.