Massachusetts storm events
Tornadoes, hurricanes, hail, and severe storms recorded in Massachusetts between 1950 and 2025, sourced from NOAA's Storm Events Database.
15,980
Storm events
203
Tornadoes
0
Hurricanes
164
Deaths
Significant recent events in Massachusetts
Events with deaths, multiple injuries, $1M+ property damage, or EF3+ tornadoes.
Winds generally gusted 40 to 50 mph. In Hanover at 9:47 AM EST a man was killed when a tree fell on a small travel trailer on the 90 block of Industrial Way. The strongest recorded gust was 50 mph in Hanson.
Heavy rainfall caused flooding of roads, homes and other crucial pieces of infrastructure throughout the City of North Adams. City Mayor Jennifer Macksey reported approximately 10 to 15 roads washed out with debris coming down the mountainside. Road collapses occurred across port…
Winds were generally gusting to 50 to 60 mph, but at the highest elevations, a mesonet site atop Mt. Tom recorded a gust to 78 mph at 617 PM EST. In Southwick at 1230 PM EST, a tree fell onto a SUV on Feeding Hills Road (Route 57), which sadly killed a 6-month old passenger.
Lenox Police reported that a 56 year old man was killed when a large tree came down in the travel line onto his pickup truck at the intersection of Route 7 and Old Stockbridge Road. Report was obtained via a local newspaper.
Winds gusted to 60-80+ mph on the outer portions of Cape Cod and to 50-60+ mph in the western portions of Cape Cod, near the canal. Peak wind gusts included: 84 mph in Dennis (CWOP), 82 mph in Wellfleet (Weatherflow), 81 mph in Eastham at Hatch Beach (Weatherflow), and 70 mph in …
Winds gusted to between 70 and nearly 90 mph in eastern Plymouth County! The peak wind report was 88 mph in Duxbury (Weatherflow) at 840 AM EDT (740 AM EST) on the 27th. Other peak wind gusts included 83 mph in Scituate at 827 AM EDT (Weatherflow); 78 mph at the Hull Yacht Club (…
Sadly, winds gusting to around 50 mph, knocked down a rotted tree, which directly hit a 1-year-old baby, who his father was holding in the front yard of his house. The father only had scratches, but the baby was taken to a hospital and he died the next day.
A tree fell on a man on a golf cart at the Wyantenuck Country Club golf course resulting in a fatality. Time was estimated by radar.
A Flash Flood emergency occurred, with considerable damage in the vicinity of Norwood Hospital. Severe flooding, more than 4 feet deep, occurred in the basement of the hospital. The entire pharmacy inventory was destroyed. One hundred patients had to be evacuated. Numerous cars w…
A waterspout moved onshore just west of Kalmus Beach in Barnstable, MA at 1157 AM EDT (1057 AM EST). Winds gusted to 91 mph at a mesonet observation site at Kalmus. They had shifted from southeast to west-northwest with the passage of the tornado. The tornado continued moving nor…
The same supercell storm that produced the Barnstable-Yarmouth tornado went on to touch down again near the center of Harwich, MA at 1210 PM EDT (1110 AM EST). The initial touchdown was just east of Harwich Elementary School, just south of Parallel Street. It moved northeast thro…
A NWS survey team determined that although a weak, shallow waterspout was observed over the southern end of the Bass River, the damage observed in West Dennis was from straight-line microburst winds, estimated at 90+ mph. Media and amateur radio contributed to the following repor…
A 27-year-old man walking along the shore at Ballston Beach in Truro Massachusetts was swept into the surf around 12:30 PM EST. He was fully clothed and walking on a narrow stretch of beach that only had 4 or 5 feet of sand next to the water. The surf/waves, which were pounding t…
In just about one minute, an EF-1 tornado, with maximum winds estimated at 110 mph, wreaked havoc in the easternmost portion of Dudley, MA and in the downtown portion of Webster, MA. It touched down along Route 12 (Schofield Avenue) to the west of Laprise Court in Dudley and trav…
At 6:13 AM EST a tree was down in Rockland across Salem Street near Union Street. At 8:35 AM EST a tree was down on Lake Street in Plympton. At 8:56 PM EST multiple trees and wires were reported down around East Bridgewater with some trees on top of houses. At 3:30 PM EST a tree …
Counties and zones
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Barnstable (734)
Berkshire (1,046)
Bristol (521)
Dukes (254)
Eastern Essex (368)
Eastern Franklin (222)
Eastern Hampden (266)
Eastern Hampshire (195)
Eastern Norfolk (378)
Eastern Plymouth (346)
Eastern Plymouth / Also Part of Norfolk (85)
Essex (661)
Franklin (696)
Hampden (911)
Hampshire (638)
Maz001 (1)
Maz022 - 023 (1)
Middlesex (1,132)
Nantucket (286)
Norfolk (560)
Northern Berkshire (392)
Northern Bristol (255)
Northern Worcester (301)
Northwest Middlesex County (122)
Plymouth (434)
Southeast Middlesex (287)
Southern Berkshire (325)
Southern Bristol (336)
Southern Plymouth (227)
Southern Worcester (326)
Suffolk (531)
Suffolk / Also Part of Norfolk (96)
Tuscola (1)
Western Essex (252)
Western Franklin (210)
Western Hampden (161)
Western Hampshire (214)
Western Middlesex (358)
Western Norfolk (317)
Western Plymouth (263)
Worcester (1,252)