Rhode Island

Storm History: Bristol County, Rhode Island

211 episodes, 241 events since 1972

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bristol County, Rhode Island: 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
241
Deaths
1
Injuries
1
Damage
$7.1 million
Episodes
211

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 Bristol 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
High Wind4801$93,000
Heavy Snow3900$100,000
Flood3100$6.1 million
Strong Wind2400$6,000
Flash Flood1710$64,000
Winter Storm1300$25,000
Heavy Rain1100
Thunderstorm Wind1000$89,000
Hail1000$140,000
Blizzard900$10,000
Winter Weather800
Tropical Storm600$223,000
Tornado500$45,000
Coastal Flood400$220,000
Drought400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Lightning100$7,000

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 Bristol County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Bristol CountyEvery warning in Bristol County since 1986Every county in Rhode Island

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.