Massachusetts

Storm History: Nantucket County, Massachusetts

232 episodes, 298 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Nantucket 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
298
Deaths
1
Injuries
1
Damage
$1.6 million
Episodes
232

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
High Wind8800$143,000
Heavy Snow3700$400,000
Coastal Flood2900$61,000
Flood2900$370,000
Winter Storm2300$105,000
Blizzard2200$206,000
Strong Wind2000$190
Tropical Storm1000$165,000
Flash Flood700$1,000
Thunderstorm Wind600$5,000
Heavy Rain600
Storm Surge/Tide600$125,000
Winter Weather200
Drought200
Debris Flow200
Lightning200$11,000
Hail100
Heat100
Funnel Cloud100
Excessive Heat100
Ice Storm100
High Surf111
Tornado100

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

More

Tornadoes in Nantucket CountyEvery warning in Nantucket 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.