Rhode Island

Storm History: Newport County, Rhode Island

233 episodes, 286 events since 1974

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Newport 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
286
Deaths
5
Injuries
0
Damage
$8.3 million
Episodes
233

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 Wind5510$289,000
Strong Wind3700$18,000
Heavy Snow3500$204,000
Flash Flood3000$125,000
Flood2100$3.7 million
Thunderstorm Wind1800$103,000
Winter Storm1500$85,000
Hail1400$20,000
Heavy Rain1100
Blizzard1110$62,000
Coastal Flood1000$3.1 million
Winter Weather600
Tropical Storm500$555,000
Drought500
Lightning300$30,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Tornado300$6,000
Excessive Heat200
High Surf230

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 Newport CountyEvery warning in Newport 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.