Atlantic North storm events
Tornadoes, hurricanes, hail, and severe storms recorded in Atlantic North between 1950 and 2025, sourced from NOAA's Storm Events Database.
14,235
Storm events
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Hurricanes
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Significant recent events in Atlantic North
Events with deaths, multiple injuries, $1M+ property damage, or EF3+ tornadoes.
Two fisherman were lost at sea when traveling from Eastport to South Addison. They radioed the USCG for assistance and changed course due to rough seas.
Suffolk County Police confirmed a woman drowned in rough waters caused by thunderstorm winds.
Wind gusts were estimated to be around 20 knots based on observations nearby around Quantico and Cobb Point. Two direct fatalities occurred when a boat capsized near the mouth of the Mattawoman Creek.
A boat capsized resulting in a fatality.
A boat carrying four people capsized due to the strong winds. Two fatalities were reported. One was missing and one was injured.
A boat capsized around 9 pm. Three people went into the water. One fatality was reported and the other two were rescued.
Locally gusty winds up to 30 mph briefly occurred along the leading edge of an area of rain moving along the Downeast coast near Schoodic Point. Three sea kayakers encountered the gusty winds in an area of dangerous currents. The combination of gusty winds and dangerous currents …
Choppy waters caused a boat to capsize, resulting in two fatalities. Buoy 44025 measured 13 foot waves at the time.
The derecho produced damaging wind gusts along the entire shore of Atlantic County and claimed the life of a 48-year-old man. The man drowned on Absecon Bay after the 20-foot skiff he was in capsized. The body was recovered at 5 a.m. EDT early that morning. Two other men who were…
Gusty northwest winds, of up to 20 knots behind a departing cold front, caused a catamaran to capsize in Western Long Island Sound, near Westport. A 3 year old occupant of the boat drowned in the accident.
Wind gust of 45 knots was measured at Rappahannock Light. A sailboat capsized during a storm near Hungars Creek off the Chesapeake Bay near Eastville. One man and one woman were on the boat. The man and woman were thrown from the boat into the Bay. The woman made it safely to sho…
The extreme weather broke apart the research vessel Russell W. Peterson about 14 miles off the coast of Rehoboth Beach. The U.S. Coast Guard rescued two crew members from the sea within three hours of getting the distress signal (7:56 AM on the 12th). By 10:30 AM EDT, a Coast Gua…
Counties and zones
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Block Island Sound (38)
Boston Harbor (92)
Buzzards Bay (40)
Cape Charles Light To Va-nc Border From 20 To 40 Nm (16)
Cape Charles Light Va To Nc-va Border Out 20nm (1)
Cape Cod Bay (36)
Cape Code Bay (8)
Cape Elizabeth Me To Merrimack River Ma Out 25 Nm (55)
Cape Henlopen To Fenwick Island De Out 20nm (1)
Cape May Nj To Fenwick Island De Out 20 To 40 Nm (1)
Casco Bay (2)
Chesapeake Bay Drum Pt To Smith Pt Va (622)
Chesapeake Bay From Little Creek (7)
Chesapeake Bay From Little Creek, Va, To Cape Henry, Va, Including the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel (339)
Chesapeake Bay N Beach To Drum Pt Md (550)
Chesapeake Bay N of Pooles Is Md (315)
Chesapeake Bay New Point Comfort To Cape Henry Va (7)
Chesapeake Bay New Pt Comfort To Cp Henry Va (204)
Chesapeake Bay Pooles Is To Sandy Pt Md (772)
Chesapeake Bay Sandy Pt To N Beach Md (1,464)
Chesapeake Bay Smith Pt To Windmill Pt Va (207)
Chesapeake Bay Windmill Point To New Point Comfort Va (4)
Chesapeake Bay Windmill Pt To New Pt Comfort Va (352)
Chester River To Queenstown Md (26)
Chincoteague To Parramore Is Va Out 20nm (61)
Chincoteague To Parramore Island Va Out 20nm (1)
Choptank River To Cambridge Md and the Little Choptank River (239)
Coastal Waters East of Ipswich Bay and the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (15)
Coastal Waters Extending Out To 25 Nm Values South of Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket (4)
Coastal Waters From Montauk Ny To Marthas Vineyard Extending Out To 20 Nm Values South of Block Island (2)
Coastal Waters From Provincetown Ma To Chatham Ma To Nantucket Ma Out 20 Nm Values (10)
Cp Charles Lt Va To Nc-va Bdr Out 20nm (318)
Cp Henlopen To Fenwick Is De Out 20nm (71)
Cp May To Cp Henlopen De Out 20nm (8)
Currituck Sound (70)
De Bay Waters N of E Pt Nj To Slaughter Beach De (96)
De Bay Waters North of East Point Nj To Slaughter Beach De (1)
De Bay Waters S of E Pt Nj To Slaughter Beach De (186)
De Bay Waters South of East Point Nj To Slaughter Beach De (4)
Eastern Bay (98)
Eastport Me To Schoodic Point Me Out 25 Nm (9)
Eastport Me To Stonington (deer Isle) Me 25 Nm To Hague Line (1)
Eastport Me To Stonington (deer Isle) Me Out 25nm (6)
Fenwick Is De To Chincoteague Va Out 20nm (119)
Fire Island Inlet Ny To Moriches Inlet Ny From 20 To 40 Nm (25)
Fire Island Inlet Ny To Sandy Hook Nj Out 20nm (215)
Great Egg Inlet Nj To Cape May Nj Out 20 To 40 Nm (1)
Great Egg Inlet To Cp May Nj Out 20nm (77)
Intracoastal Waters From Schoodic Point Me To Stonington Me (17)
James River From James River Bridge To Hampton Roads Bridge-tunnel (383)
James River From Jamestown To the James River Bridge (34)
Little Egg Inlet Nj To Great Egg Inlet Nj Out 20 To 40 Nm (2)
Little Egg Inlet To Great Egg Inlet Nj Out 20nm (52)
Long Island Sound E of New Haven Ct To Port Jefferson Ny (188)
Long Island Sound East of New Haven Ct To Port Jefferson Ny (1)
Long Island Sound East of New Haven Ct/port Jefferson Ny To the Mouth of the Connecticut River (40)
Long Island Sound East of the Mouth of the Connecticut River (43)
Long Island Sound W of New Haven Ct To Port Jefferson Ny (448)
Long Island Sound West of New Haven Ct To Port Jefferson Ny (3)
Manasquan Inlet Nj To Little Egg Inlet Nj Out 20 To 40 Nm (1)
Manasquan Inlet To Little Egg Inlet Nj Out 20nm (204)
Massachusetts Bay and Ipswich Bay (78)
Merrimack River Ma To Watch Hill Ri 25 To 40nm (3)
Merrimack River Ma and Out 20nm To Plymouth Ma and Out 40nm (29)
Montauk Point Ny To Sandy Hook Nj 20 To 40nm (17)
Montauk Point To Moriches Inlet Ny Out 20nm (84)
Moriches Inlet Ny To Montauk Point Ny From 20 To 40 Nm (5)
Moriches Inlet To Fire Island Inlet Ny Out 20nm (55)
Mouth of Chesapeake Bay From New Point Comfort To Little Creek, Va (528)
Nantucket Sound (45)
Nantucket To Martha's Vineyard Ma To Block Island Ri To Montauk Ny and Se 20nm (2)
Narragansett Bay (132)
Nc-va Bdr To Currituck Beach Lt Out 20nm (83)
New York Harbor (292)
Parramore Is To Cp Charles Lt Va Out 20nm (8)
Patapsco River Including Baltimore Harbor (440)
Patuxent River To Broomes Island Md (140)
Peconic and Gardiners Bays (30)
Penobscot Bay (4)
Port Clyde Me To Cape Elizabeth Me Out 25 Nm (12)
Provincetown Ma To Chatham Ma To Nantucket Ma Out 20nm (9)
Rappahannock River From Urbanna To Windmill Point (11)
Rhode Island Sound (26)
Sandy Hook Nj To Fenwick Is De 20 To 40nm (2)
Sandy Hook Nj To Fire Island Ny From 20 To 40 Nm (3)
Sandy Hook Nj To Manasquan Inlet Nj Out 20 To 40 Nm (1)
Sandy Hook To Manasquan Inlet Nj Out 20nm (87)
Schoodic Point Me To Stonington Me Out 25 Nm (7)
South Shore Bays From Jones Inlet Through Shinnecock Bay (172)
Stonington (deer Isle) Me To Merrimack River Ma 25 To 40nm (3)
Stonington (deer Isle) Me To Merrimack River Ma Out 25nm (6)
Stonington Me To Port Clyde Me Out 25 Nm (6)
Tangier Sound and the Inland Waters Surrounding Bloodsworth Island (635)
Tidal Potomac Cobb Is Md To Smith Pt Va (970)
Tidal Potomac Indian Hd To Cobb Is Md (1,301)
Tidal Potomac Key Bridge To Indian Hd Md (714)
Vineyard Sound (16)
York River (67)