NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit East Wareham, MA
Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
62 tropical systems have passed within 75 miles of East Wareham, Massachusetts since 1851, 14 of them at hurricane strength; the most recent was Wanda in 2021. Since 1950, 20 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 14
- Tropical storms
- 48
- Tornadoes
- 20
- EF3 or stronger
- 0
within 75 mi, since 1851
below hurricane strength
within 25 mi, since 1950
1 deaths in all
What the records show for East Wareham
The strongest storm to pass near East Wareham was Edna in 1954, a Category 2 hurricane with 109 mph winds when its centre passed 19 miles away. The closest pass by a hurricane was an unnamed storm in 1904, whose centre crossed the city. The record near East Wareham begins with an unnamed storm in 1851; the most recent system was Wanda in 2021, a tropical storm 70 miles away. The busiest decade was the 1880s, with 9 systems, 2 of them at hurricane strength. Of the 62 systems, 9 have come since 2000. East Wareham has more hurricanes within 75 miles than 87% of the 346 Massachusetts cities on this site. The highest rating among the 20 tornadoes within 25 miles is F2, reached 2 times; the most recent, on August 28, 1970, came within 18 miles. The deadliest, an F0 on September 7, 1958, killed 1 person. Of the 20, none had a path within 5 miles of the city centre, and 7 have come since 2000. August has had the most tornadoes, 8. The most recent tornado was on August 8, 2023. Of the 346 Massachusetts cities, 85% have more tornadoes within 25 miles than East Wareham. Hail has been reported within 10 miles 20 times since 1986, with stones up to 2.25 inches. Of the 346 Massachusetts cities, 89% have more hail reports within 10 miles than East Wareham.
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Tropical storms and hurricanes near East Wareham
| Year | Storm | Closest | Strength when closest | Peak |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | WandaOct 27 | 70 mi | Tropical storm (69 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 2021 | IdaSep 2 | 41 mi | Tropical storm (46 mph) | Category 4 |
| 2021 | HenriAug 22 | 63 mi | Tropical storm (63 mph) | Category 1 |
| 2021 | ElsaJul 9 | 23 mi | Tropical storm (52 mph) | Category 1 |
| 2013 | AndreaJun 8 | 20 mi | Tropical storm (46 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 2008 | HannaSep 7 | 37 mi | Tropical storm (52 mph) | Category 1 |
| 2007 | BarryJun 4 | 28 mi | Tropical storm (40 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 2006 | BerylJul 21 | 44 mi | Tropical storm (52 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 2004 | HermineAug 31 | 23 mi | Tropical storm (40 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 1999 | FloydSep 17 | 70 mi | Tropical storm (55 mph) | Category 4 |
| 1996 | JosephineOct 9 | 35 mi | Tropical storm (52 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 1996 | BerthaJul 14 | 60 mi | Tropical storm (68 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1991 | BobAug 19 | 21 mi | Category 1 (91 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1973 | AlfaAug 1 | 70 mi | Tropical storm (39 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 1972 | CarrieSep 3 | 66 mi | Tropical storm (63 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 1966 | AlmaJun 14 | overhead | Tropical storm (46 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1961 | EstherSep 26 | 24 mi | Tropical storm (58 mph) | Category 5 |
| 1961 | Unnamed 1961 stormSep 15 | 68 mi | Tropical storm (66 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 1960 | DonnaSep 12 | 60 mi | Category 1 (78 mph) | Category 4 |
| 1959 | CindyJul 11 | 2 mi | Tropical storm (58 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1955 | DianeAug 19 | 57 mi | Tropical storm (46 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1954 | EdnaSep 11 | 19 mi | Category 2 (109 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1954 | CarolAug 31 | 59 mi | Category 2 (106 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1952 | Unnamed 1952 stormFeb 4 | 55 mi | Tropical storm (63 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 1944 | Unnamed 1944 stormOct 21 | 54 mi | Tropical storm (52 mph) | Category 4 |
| 1944 | Unnamed 1944 stormSep 15 | 23 mi | Category 1 (75 mph) | Category 5 |
| 1934 | Unnamed 1934 stormJun 20 | 15 mi | Tropical storm (46 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1932 | Unnamed 1932 stormSep 17 | 69 mi | Category 1 (75 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1924 | Unnamed 1924 stormAug 26 | 54 mi | Category 1 (91 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1923 | Unnamed 1923 stormOct 19 | 6 mi | Tropical storm (55 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 1917 | Unnamed 1917 stormAug 10 | 68 mi | Tropical storm (66 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 1916 | Unnamed 1916 stormJul 21 | 17 mi | Tropical storm (64 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1916 | Unnamed 1916 stormMay 17 | 57 mi | Tropical storm (58 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 1915 | Unnamed 1915 stormAug 5 | 61 mi | Tropical storm (40 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1913 | Unnamed 1913 stormOct 2 | 57 mi | Tropical storm (58 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1908 | Unnamed 1908 stormMay 31 | 49 mi | Tropical storm (40 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1907 | Unnamed 1907 stormJun 30 | 3 mi | Tropical storm (40 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 1904 | Unnamed 1904 stormSep 15 | overhead | Category 1 (85 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1902 | Unnamed 1902 stormJun 17 | 39 mi | Tropical storm (40 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 1897 | Unnamed 1897 stormSep 24 | 52 mi | Tropical storm (47 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 1896 | Unnamed 1896 stormSep 10 | 1 mi | Tropical storm (68 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1894 | Unnamed 1894 stormOct 10 | 65 mi | Tropical storm (62 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1889 | Unnamed 1889 stormSep 25 | 20 mi | Tropical storm (40 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1888 | Unnamed 1888 stormOct 12 | 55 mi | Tropical storm (44 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1888 | Unnamed 1888 stormSep 26 | 40 mi | Category 1 (81 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1888 | Unnamed 1888 stormSep 12 | 35 mi | Tropical storm (40 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 1888 | Unnamed 1888 stormAug 22 | 33 mi | Tropical storm (48 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1887 | Unnamed 1887 stormOct 21 | 53 mi | Tropical storm (52 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1885 | Unnamed 1885 stormSep 23 | 69 mi | Category 1 (92 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1881 | Unnamed 1881 stormSep 11 | 71 mi | Tropical storm (58 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1880 | Unnamed 1880 stormOct 23 | 42 mi | Tropical storm (69 mph) | Tropical storm |
| 1879 | Unnamed 1879 stormAug 19 | 14 mi | Category 1 (79 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1878 | Unnamed 1878 stormOct 24 | 68 mi | Tropical storm (58 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1877 | Unnamed 1877 stormOct 5 | 16 mi | Tropical storm (61 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1875 | Unnamed 1875 stormOct 15 | 71 mi | Tropical storm (62 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1872 | Unnamed 1872 stormOct 27 | 13 mi | Tropical storm (46 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1869 | Unnamed 1869 stormOct 4 | 13 mi | Category 2 (104 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1869 | Unnamed 1869 stormSep 8 | 44 mi | Category 2 (106 mph) | Category 3 |
| 1861 | Unnamed 1861 stormNov 3 | 46 mi | Tropical storm (58 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1861 | Unnamed 1861 stormSep 28 | 74 mi | Tropical storm (58 mph) | Category 1 |
| 1858 | Unnamed 1858 stormSep 16 | 56 mi | Category 1 (77 mph) | Category 2 |
| 1851 | Unnamed 1851 stormOct 19 | 50 mi | Tropical storm (48 mph) | Tropical storm |
Strength is the sustained wind on the track at the closest point, which is not the wind felt in East Wareham: a hurricane's worst winds sit within a few dozen miles of its centre, and inland cities are usually past that.
Tornadoes within 25 miles of East Wareham
By decade
- 2020s3
- 2010s4
- 1990s2
- 1980s1
- 1970s3
- 1960s5
- 1950s2
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 1970 | F2 | 18 mi | 1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Nov 18, 1967 | F2 | 18 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Aug 8, 2023 | EF1 | 12 mi | 0.9 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jul 23, 2019 | EF1 | 23 mi | 0.25 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jul 23, 2019 | EF1 | 21 mi | 5.52 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Aug 22, 1977 | F1 | 21 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 2 |
| Aug 9, 1968 | F1 | 18 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Aug 9, 1968 | F1 | 14 mi | 1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jul 4, 1964 | F1 | 22 mi | 2.3 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Sep 7, 1958 | F0 | 19 mi | 0.1 mi | 1 / 1 |
| Aug 8, 2023 | EF0 | 15 mi | 1.2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Sep 1, 2021 | EF0 | 23 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
The strongest 12 of 20, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in East Wareham
The Storm Prediction Center has 20 hail reports within 10 miles of East Wareham since 1986, made on 14 separate days. Of these, 8 were 1 inch across or larger, and one reached 2 inches. The largest, 2.25 inches, fell on August 16, 2008. The most recent report is from August 26, 2024. August has the most reports, 11.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in East Wareham
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is E Wareham, MA, 2 miles southwest of East Wareham at 30 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 81°F and low of 64°F; January is the coolest, at 39°F and 22°F. March is the wettest at 5.6 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 3.1 inches; the year adds up to 51.3 inches over 83 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 48% of the year's precipitation (24.4 of 51.3 inches); the other six months are wetter. September has brought the most of the 62 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (21); a normal September there has highs of 73°F and 4.5 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 4 days a year, almost all from July. Lows fall below freezing on about 116 nights a year. Snowfall averages 37.2 inches a year, most of it in January. That 51.3 inches is more than at 53 of the 65 Massachusetts stations used on this site (82%). Plymouth, 8 miles north, has its own station (Plymouth Municipal Airport, MA): 48.1 inches a year, 3.2 less than here, and a July average high of 82°F against 81°F.
Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Woods Hole, MA, 18 miles south, averaged 74°F in August and 36°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Woods Hole tide gauge, 18 miles from East Wareham, has risen 1.24 ± 0.03 inches per decade from 1932 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 12.4 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 73 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" | Snow in | Water °F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 39 | 22 | 4.2 | 8 | 12.9 | 39 |
| Feb | 41 | 22 | 3.7 | 7 | 9.2 | 36 |
| Mar | 46 | 28 | 5.6 | 7 | 7.3 | 40 |
| Apr | 56 | 37 | 4.6 | 7 | 1.3 | 47 |
| May | 66 | 48 | 3.8 | 7 | 0.0 | 56 |
| Jun | 75 | 57 | 3.7 | 6 | 0.0 | 66 |
| Jul | 81 | 64 | 3.1 | 5 | 0.0 | 73 |
| Aug | 80 | 63 | 3.6 | 6 | 0.0 | 74 |
| Sep | 73 | 55 | 4.5 | 6 | 0.0 | 71 |
| Oct | 63 | 44 | 5.0 | 7 | 0.0 | 63 |
| Nov | 53 | 35 | 4.5 | 7 | 0.2 | 54 |
| Dec | 44 | 27 | 5.0 | 9 | 6.3 | 45 |
| Year | 60 | 42 | 51.3 | 83 | 37.2 | 55 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at E Wareham, MA (30 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals; water temperature: average of hourly readings 2021–2025 at the NOAA tide station Woods Hole, MA, from NOAA Tides & Currents. Normals describe the station; the farther a place is from it, and the bigger the difference in height, the more its weather can differ.
Floods, thunderstorm wind and lightning near East Wareham
Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 65 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of East Wareham: 25 thunderstorm wind reports, 19 floods, 10 flash floods, 10 lightning strikes and 1 heavy rain event. They killed 0 people and injured 4, and the NWS estimated $866,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 101 mph, on October 30, 2012. September has had the most flash floods, 6 of 10. Of the 339 Massachusetts cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 97 have had fewer than East Wareham.
August 2, 2008: thunderstorm wind 3 miles from the centre of East Wareham — 1 injured, $500 damage.
September 12, 2009: lightning strike 2 miles from the centre of East Wareham — 1 injured.
NWS: “There were two lightning strikes at Camp Cachalot, a boy scout camp run by the Narragansett Council. One of them struck near the dining hall where one of the|Scouts was leaning on a metal serving table.”
July 18, 2011: lightning strike 4 miles from the centre of East Wareham — 1 injured.
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, events whose starting point is on record, 1996 to June 30, 2026. Damage is the NWS estimate in the dollars of the year, not insured losses, and NWS notes that some reports are unverified.
Flood insurance claims, disaster declarations and FEMA risk ratings
Plymouth County, which includes East Wareham, has been named in 32 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1972, 21 of them major disasters (by incident: 9 hurricanes, 7 severe storms, 6 snowstorms, 5 floods). The latest major disaster declaration was Severe Winter Storm and Snowstorm, on April 18, 2022. FEMA's National Risk Index gives Plymouth County a Relatively Moderate rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Very High for coastal flooding; Relatively High for strong wind and lightning; Relatively Moderate for hurricanes, inland flooding and heat waves; Relatively Low for tornadoes; Very Low for hail. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $114.3 million a year, the 6th highest of 14 Massachusetts counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $71.4 million (62%), is from inland flooding.
Claims: FEMA, OpenFEMA Dataset FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims – v3, summed over ZIP codes; payments in the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. Declarations: Disaster Declarations Summaries – v2, by county. Retrieved October 25, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
Risk ratings: FEMA, National Risk Index county table, December 2025 (v1.20), retrieved October 26, 2026; ratings compare counties nationwide, are meant for planning and are no substitute for a local risk assessment. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index dataset API or downloadable datasets but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
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