Hail in Rhode Island

Events

140

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Damage

$20,000

• Flash Flooding and Hail in Rhode Island, June 24, 20081 death · $30,000 · 1.75 in hail · 14 eventsA slow moving cold front provided a focus for severe thunderstorms. These thunderstorms produced very heavy rain that resulted in flash flooding, hail, and damaging winds.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Rhode Island, June 22, 1997$440,000 · 1.75 in hail · 13 eventsA line of thunderstorms, some severe, moved southeastward across Rhode Island with large hail, frequent cloud to ground lightning, and wind gusts measured up to 80 mph.
• Tornado and Flash Flooding in Rhode Island, July 23, 2008$170,000 · EF1 · 8 eventsA frontal system moved through southern New England with the warm front moving through first and increasing low level moisture. Then the cold front moved through providing a lifting mechanism for showers and thunderstorms to develop.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Rhode Island, June 8 to 9, 2011$333,000 · 1 in hail · 6 eventsA Mesoscale Convective System moved out of the Great Lakes and across New York state providing a focus for convection across southern New England. One overnight thunderstorm produced a severe microburst in Providence, RI that downed numerous trees throughout town.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Rhode Island, July 1, 20123 injured · $50,000 · 1 in hail · 11 eventsA weak cold front produced showers and thunderstorms, a few of which became severe producing both large hail and gusty winds.
• Flash Flood and Hail in Rhode Island, June 22, 2012$85,000 · 1 in hail · 5 eventsA cold front moved through a hot and humid southern New England producing showers and thunderstorms. Many of these storms became severe, resulting in damaging winds, large hail, and some flash flooding.
• Flood and Hail in Rhode Island, September 3, 2013$85,000 · 1 in hail · 5 eventsA cold front moved through an unstable atmosphere across southern New England, triggering showers and thunderstorms across much of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. There was enough shear and instability for some of these storms to become severe, producing damaging winds.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Rhode Island, June 20, 2006$80,000 · 50 kt wind · 4 eventsA severe thunderstorms brought down large branches in Woonsocket.Later in the afternoon, another severe thunderstorm brought down wires in Providence, and blew down scaffolding at the state capitol building.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Rhode Island, July 18, 2006$65,000 · 1.75 in hail · 8 eventsSevere thunderstorms moved through Rhode Island at night, in advance of a cold front pushing through southern New England.Thunderstorm winds brought down trees and large limbs in Scituate, Johnston, Cranston, Warwick, Barrington, Middletown, North Kingstown, and Portsmouth.
• Flash Flooding and Flooding in Rhode Island, July 1, 2009$50,000 · 0.75 in hail · 8 eventsA stationary front stretched from Hartford, Connecticut across northern Rhode Island to southeast Massachusetts combined with an upper level disturbance to produce showers and thunderstorms across southern New England.
• Flooding and Hail in Rhode Island, July 28, 2015$42,000 · 1 in hail · 7 eventsA strong upper level disturbance sparked showers and thunderstorms across much of southern New England. A few of these storms became severe, producing damaging winds. Others produced heavy rain that resulted in flooding.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Rhode Island, August 2, 2006$30,000 · 60 kt wind · 4 eventsSevere thunderstorms developed in northwest Massachusetts late in the afternoon and traveled southward, affecting much of Rhode Island, before exiting Cape Cod and the Islands - a path of approximately 175 miles.
• Flash Flood and Flooding in Rhode Island, July 14, 2020$24,000 · 1.25 in hail · 7 eventsA negatively tilted trough with anomalously cold air aloft moved into southern New England, producing severe thunderstorms and localized flooding during the afternoon.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Rhode Island, July 23, 2016$26,000 · 50 kt wind · 5 eventsA cold pool aloft coupled with a large area of instability and a mid level disturbance moving through the area resulted in showers and thunderstorms across much of southern New England. The stronger of these storms produced hail and wind damage.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Rhode Island, July 24, 2015$20,000 · 1 in hail · 8 eventsA strong mid level disturbance and very cold air in the mid levels prompted showers and thunderstorms to develop, mainly across eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The cold air aloft resulted in several reports of large hail in addition to some isolated tree damage.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Rhode Island, July 18, 2012$20,000 · 2 in hail · 6 eventsA cold front moved across southern New England into a warm moist airmass with plenty of instability. This resulted in severe thunderstorms and in some cases training of storms that resulted in flash flooding across some of the more urban areas.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Rhode Island, June 30, 2019$16,000 · 1.25 in hail · 5 eventsA pool of cold air above the surface moved over Southern New England during June 30. |This created sufficient instability to cause thunderstorms with large hail and damaging wind. The cold air moved off to the southeast that night.
• Hail and Damaging Wind in Rhode Island, August 10, 2000$15,000 · 1.75 in hail · 2 eventsA long-lived supercell, which formed over eastern New York during the late evening of the 9th, strengthened as it moved across northern Connecticut, where it caused wind damage and dropped large hail.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Rhode Island, August 4, 19950.75 in hail · 9 eventsSevere thunderstorms moved across parts of Rhode Island bringing gusty winds and small to dime-size hail as well as briefly heavy rain. Trees were reported blown down in Burrillville, North Smithfield, Providence, Barrington, Warwick, and Hopkinton.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Rhode Island, July 2, 2008$10,000 · 1 in hail · 7 eventsAn upper level trough approaching Southern New England set off showers and thunderstorms across much of the area. With cold temperatures aloft, hail was the main threat experienced.
• Hail in Rhode Island, July 2, 20041 in hail · 6 eventsSevere thunderstorms dropped quarter sized hail in Coventry, Johnston, Providence, and North Kingstown. Dime sized hail was reported in Warwick and Barrington.
• Flash Flooding and Hail in Rhode Island, August 26, 20241.25 in hail · 6 eventsA cold pool aloft and surface front caused a round of strong to severe storms over all of southern New England. Hail from 1 to 2 inches fell in MA, RI, and CT while localized flash flooding was observed in southern RI and MA.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Rhode Island, July 3, 2025$10,000 · 1 in hail · 5 eventsA cold front dropped through southern New England in the afternoon and evening causing a line of strong storms to move through CT, RI, and southeast MA causing wind damage in each state. Eastern CT also saw hail from quarter to golf ball sized.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Rhode Island, June 20, 19951.75 in hail · 5 eventsSevere thunderstorms moved across parts of Rhode Island producing large hail, gusty winds, and lightning strikes. In Johnston, the police department reported golf ball-size hail.
• Flash Flooding and Hail in Rhode Island, June 30, 19982.75 in hail · 5 eventsA slow moving warm front with an abundance of tropical moisture produced several hours of torrential rain with amounts totaling 3 to 6 inches during the morning and early afternoon. Showers and thunderstorms produced the torrential rainfall across northern Rhode Island.

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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.