Massachusetts

Storm History: Hampshire County, Massachusetts

574 episodes, 1,077 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hampshire County, Massachusetts: 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
1,077
Deaths
1
Injuries
22
Damage
$22 million
Episodes
574

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.

Open the live radar over Hampshire County

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
Hail256113$1.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind17701$1.7 million
Heavy Snow12300$4.4 million
Flash Flood10204$917,000
Flood9300$3.4 million
High Wind8701$629,000
Winter Storm5300$362,000
Tornado5101$669,000
Winter Weather2500$36,000
Strong Wind2001$60,000
Drought1800
Coastal Flood1700$124,000
Blizzard1700$300
Lightning1001$438,000
Tropical Storm800$1.1 million
Ice Storm600$6.3 million
Storm Surge/Tide600
Heavy Rain300
Heat300
Excessive Heat200

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 Hampshire County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Hampshire CountyEvery warning in Hampshire County since 1986Every county in Massachusetts

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.