Central, Southern, Southeastern Tornado Outbreak
One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $6.6 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($6.6 billion at the time) and 3 deaths.
What the offices filed during it
The 177 most significant severe storm episodes filed in these dates, colored by kind.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Losses, 2024 dollars
- $6.6 billion
- Losses at the time
- $6.6 billion
- Deaths
- 3
The losses and deaths are NCEI’s, counting everything the disaster did. The episodes below are only what the Weather Service filed in its Storm Events record, which counts damage differently and often not at all, so the two never add up and are shown apart.
By state, as filed
| State | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 109 | 2 | 3 | $185 million |
| Michigan | 25 | 0 | 13 | $51 million |
| Tennessee | 242 | 6 | 13 | $37 million |
| Oklahoma | 170 | 2 | 33 | $27 million |
| Texas | 220 | 1 | 7 | $23 million |
| Alabama | 115 | 0 | 7 | $6.6 million |
| Ohio | 56 | 0 | 0 | $3.4 million |
| Kansas | 118 | 0 | 0 | $3.3 million |
| Missouri | 324 | 0 | 1 | $2.7 million |
| Mississippi | 46 | 1 | 4 | $2.2 million |
| Indiana | 97 | 0 | 0 | $1.5 million |
| Illinois | 104 | 0 | 1 | $1.4 million |
| Kentucky | 106 | 1 | 0 | $875,000 |
| Arkansas | 55 | 0 | 0 | $790,000 |
| Iowa | 70 | 0 | 0 | $733,000 |
| Puerto Rico | 110 | 1 | 3 | $466,000 |
| North Carolina | 111 | 1 | 3 | $443,000 |
| Wisconsin | 58 | 0 | 0 | $436,000 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | 0 | 0 | $341,000 |
| Georgia | 173 | 0 | 1 | $278,000 |
| South Carolina | 114 | 0 | 0 | $253,000 |
| West Virginia | 29 | 0 | 2 | $195,000 |
| Nebraska | 25 | 0 | 0 | $195,000 |
| Louisiana | 21 | 0 | 0 | $81,000 |
| Minnesota | 8 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 |
| Virginia | 18 | 0 | 0 | $6,000 |
| Massachusetts | 11 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | 1 | 0 | 0 | $3,000 |
| South Dakota | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| Montana | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Connecticut | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Rhode Island | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wyoming | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Episode by episode
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Illinois, May 4, 2024A line of thunderstorms moved across Southern Illinois during the evening hours of May 4th. CAPE values were 2500-3000 J/kg but deep layer shear was very weak. Heavy rainfall occurred with the storms, with the highest rainfall totals occurring in Perry County, IL.
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, May 4 to 5, 2024A shortwave trough and a cold front led to the development of scattered to numerous thunderstorms May 4 and 5. Heavy rain causing flash flooding was the main impact during these days. Unfortunately one flash flood fatality occurred in Johnson County.
- Flash Flood in South Carolina, May 5, 2024Early morning thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall across portions of the forecast area prompting the issuance of Flood Advisories and a Flash Flood Warning in the Columbia Metro area.
- Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, May 5, 2024Widespread showers and thunderstorms developed across northeastern Oklahoma during the early morning hours of the 5th, as an upper level disturbance approached the area.
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, May 5, 2024A large area of strong to severe thunderstorms moving across Central Texas early on May 5th gradually shifted into parts of East Texas shortly after daybreak.
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, May 5, 2024At the surface, a cold front drifted eastward from western OH to eastern OH, roughly along and north of I-70, during the late morning through early evening of the 5th. Farther south, the front remained nearly-stationary in vicinity of south-central and southwest OH.
- Flash Flood in Ohio, May 5, 2024A weak cold front brought showers and thunderstorms into the area on the afternoon and evening of May 5th.
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, May 5, 2024A strong line of thunderstorms knocked down a tree in Colbert County during the early evening hours of the 5th.
- Tornado and Strong Wind in Arkansas, May 5, 2024Clearing in the wake of earlier convection on May 5th allowed for air mass recovery across North Louisiana and South Arkansas.
- Flash Flooding in Pennsylvania, May 5, 2024Localized convergence of thunderstorms created a small area of 1.5 to 2.5 inch rain totals in portions of Washington and Allegheny Counties on May 5th, creating a few isolated flooding issues.
- Damaging Wind in Wyoming, May 5, 2024A thunderstorm briefly became severe over portions of northwest Campbell County, producing wind gusts to over 60 mph.
- Damaging Wind in Montana, May 5, 2024An isolated thunderstorm during the early evening of the 5th produced a microburst. Some minor damage, including an uprooted tree, was reported.
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, May 5, 2024Within a moist airmass, a lingering surface frontal boundary led to the development of scattered showers and thunderstorms. Over the Coastal Plain, a storm cell produced localized flash flooding near the town of Smithfield.
- Damaging Winds in Montana, May 5, 2024An area of strong to severe thunderstorms moved through northeast Montana on the evening of May 5th.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Tennessee, May 6, 2024A broken line of thunderstorm tracked eastward across Middle Tennessee on May 6, 2024. With plenty of instability and modest shear, these thunderstorms became strong to severe, especially across eastern Middle Tennessee.
- Tornado and Flooding in Kansas, May 6 to 7, 2024A dryline and Pacific cold front moved into the region on Monday May 6th, and with abundant moisture and instability already in place, storms erupted by the early afternoon hours across west-central Kansas.
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, May 6, 2024Potent upper level low brings widespread severe weather to much of the Central Plains, including portions of south central Nebraska, during the afternoon and early evening hours of May 6th.
- Hail in Kansas, May 6, 2024Potent upper level low brings widespread severe weather to much of the Central Plains, including portions of north central Kansas, during the afternoon and early evening hours of May 6th.
- Tornadoes in South Dakota, May 6, 2024A thunderstorm developed over western Meade County and became tornadic as it tracked north-northwest across eastern Butte County. Two small tornadoes developed over the open prairie, producing no damage.
- Tornadoes in Nebraska, May 6, 2024A potent upper level low centered over the central Rockies, with deep surface cyclogenesis, produced a line of north to south thunderstorms during the afternoon and early evening hours on April 6th.
- Hail in Kansas, May 6, 2024Hail and winds on 05/06.
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, May 6, 2024An isolated thunderstorm produced marginal wind damage over portions of the central Virginia Piedmont during the afternoon hours.
- Hail in North Carolina, May 6, 2024An upper level weather system moving over the wider region allowed for scattered severe thunderstorms to develop, including in southwest North Carolina.
- Hail in Georgia, May 6, 2024Isolated thunderstorms developed during the afternoon hours producing hail in Georgia before continuing into South Carolina.
- Flash Flooding and Debris Flows in Puerto Rico, May 6 to 10, 2024Saturated soils from the previous rainfall events enhanced the risk of flash and river flooding, as another mid to upper-level trough lingered across the region.
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, May 6, 2024A thunderstorm briefly became severe over far northeast Pennington County, producing wind gusts up to 70 mph.
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 6, 2024A strong isolated thunderstorm developed on the evening of May the 6th north of Athens. The thunderstorm produced gusty and damaging winds as well as large hail.
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 6, 2024Scattered thunderstorms developed across upstate South Carolina during the late afternoon. A few of these storms became strong-to-severe across the foothills, producing hail up to golf ball size and isolated damaging wind gusts.
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, May 6, 2024A line of thunderstorms over central Todd County produced wind gusts to over 60 mph.
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, May 6, 2024A single, isolated thunderstorm developed over the western portions of Tallahassee with large hail and a tree down reported.
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Virginia, May 6, 2024Showers and thunderstorms developed around a stalled boundary over the central Shenandoah Valley. Locally heavy rainfall and slow storm motion led to a few instances of flooding and flash flooding around the city of Harrisonburg.
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 6, 2024Isolated thunderstorms impacted parts of South Carolina after moving in from Georgia.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, May 6 to 7, 2024A significant severe weather outbreak, including ten (10) tornadoes, impacted northern and central portions of the WFO Norman Forecast Area during the evening of the 6th into the early morning hours of the 7th.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 6, 2024An upper level trough moved over East Tennessee and surrounding areas, helping spark scattered severe thunderstorms, which produced a handful of large hail and severe thunderstorm wind gusts.
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 6, 2024A large cluster of thunderstorms impacted portions of southeast South Carolina in the early evening hours. These thunderstorms became strong enough to produce damaging wind gusts.
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Virginia, May 6, 2024A moist airmass was in place across the lower Mid Atlantic and Southeast with dew points in the upper 60s to lower 70s. A weak surface low moved across the area from western Virginia to southeastern Virginia during the afternoon of May 6.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 6, 2024A long duration severe weather event occurred late afternoon into the night of May 6th.
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Kentucky, May 6 to 7, 2024Between a stalled frontal boundary and a disturbance crossing the region, several rounds of rain and storms impacted northeastern Kentucky between the 6th and 7th of May.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, May 6, 2024Upper air analysis depicted a negatively tilted trough over the western CONUS, with its axis extending from the central Rocky Mountains northwest into the Pacific Northwest.
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, May 6, 2024A strong negatively tilted trough lifted northward through the Western Plains during the afternoon and evening of May 6.
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, May 6, 2024A cluster of thunderstorms moved across portions of southeast Georgia during the evening hours, producing cloud to ground lightning strikes.
- Damaging Winds in South Dakota, May 6, 2024A strong negatively tilted trough lifted northward through the Western Plains during the afternoon and evening of May 6.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Iowa, May 6, 2024Upper air analysis depicted a negatively tilted trough over the western CONUS, with its axis extending from the central Rocky Mountains northwest into the Pacific Northwest.
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 6, 2024Scattered thunderstorms developed across western North Carolina during the evening. One of the storms produced brief damaging wind gusts in Iredell County.
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, May 6, 2024A strong negatively tilted trough lifted northward through the Western Plains during the afternoon and evening of May 6.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, May 6 to 7, 2024Severe thunderstorms developed over western Oklahoma during the afternoon of the 6th, as a dry line sharpened over the area. These storms developed eastward across central Oklahoma during the afternoon, and then moved into eastern Oklahoma during the evening.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, May 6 to 7, 2024A quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) swept across Iowa late on May 6th and into the early morning hours of May 7th. The line was strongest in southern Iowa where the environment was more supportive of severe weather.
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 6, 2024A decaying outflow boundary along with residual heat and humidity resulted in an isolated severe thunderstorm over Surry County, which produced damaging winds.
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, May 6, 2024A line of severe thunderstorms moved into far eastern Kansas late in the evening, around 8 PM CST. This line of storms brought numerous reports of wind damage to portions of Leavenworth, Wyandotte, and Johnson County Kansas.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 6 to 7, 2024In the late evening hours of May 6th and early morning hours of May 7th, several severe linear features moved through Missouri from west to east.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Kansas, May 6, 2024A shortwave trough and an associated cold front pushed through far southeast Kansas during the late evening hours on May 6, 2024. Thunderstorms developed along the front, growing upscale to a linear storm mode by the time they reached southeast Kansas.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 6 to 7, 2024A shortwave trough and an associated cold front pushed through the Missouri Ozarks during the late evening of May 6, 2024 and into the early morning hours of May 7, 2024.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 7, 2024During the night on May 6th, 2024, a line of severe thunderstorms moved across western Missouri and impacted the NWS St. Louis forecast area during the early morning of May 7th.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Arkansas, May 7, 2024Severe thunderstorms developed over western Oklahoma during the afternoon of the 6th, as a dry line sharpened over the area.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, May 7, 2024There were several rounds of severe storms on May 8th, 2024. An early morning line of storms brought wind damage to a large portion of Iowa, Illinois, and northeast Missouri.
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 7, 2024There were several rounds of severe storms on May 7th, 2024. An early morning line of storms brought wind damage to a large portion of Iowa, Illinois, and northeast Missouri.
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, May 7, 2024During the night on May 6th, 2024, a line of severe thunderstorms moved across western Missouri and impacted the NWS St. Louis forecast area during the early morning of May 7th.
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Illinois, May 7, 2024There were several rounds of severe storms on May 7th, 2024. An early morning line of storms brought wind damage to a large portion of Iowa, Illinois, and northeast Missouri.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, May 7, 2024An upper-level disturbance interacting with a cold front triggered a line of strong to severe thunderstorms across Iowa and Missouri during the pre-dawn hours of May 7th.
- Hail in Missouri, May 7, 2024A line of thunderstorms moved across Southeast Missouri and Southwest Illinois during the early morning hours of the 7th. MLCAPE values were around 1000 J/kg while effective bulk shear was 40 kts and trending higher.
- Tornadoes and Flooding in Wisconsin, May 7, 2024A few rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms moved along a stationary front that was draped across southern WI. Two tornadoes occurred with the second line of storms in the early afternoon.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Ohio, May 7 to 8, 2024Showers and thunderstorms developed during the late afternoon and evening hours ahead of a low pressure system moving through the Ohio Valley.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Illinois, May 7, 2024Scattered thunderstorms moved across parts of northern Illinois during the afternoon of May 7th producing large hail, localized flooding and one tornado. Additional scattered thunderstorms developed during the evening of May 7th producing locally severe winds.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, May 7, 2024Scattered thunderstorms moved across parts of northwest Indiana during the afternoon of May 7th producing large hail and scattered wind damage.
- Tornado and Hail in Indiana, May 7, 2024Thunderstorms produced severe tornadoes, large hail, and damaging wind gusts on the afternoon and evening of May 7. The largest hail stone reported was 3.5 inches in diameter.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Indiana, May 7, 2024At times robust south-southwesterly breezes brought unseasonably high dewpoints in the upper 60s and temperatures around 80 degrees, which led a favorable set-up for severe thunderstorms that also included high low-level helicity, and a 40-knot low-level jet stream ahead of an…
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 7, 2024Isolated thunderstorms developed across the North Carolina foothills during the late afternoon and evening. A couple of the storms produced brief damaging wind gusts.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Michigan, May 7, 2024Thunderstorms produced severe tornadoes, large hail, and damaging wind gusts on the afternoon and evening of May 7. The largest hail stone reported was 4 inches in diameter.
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, May 7, 2024A disturbance crossing the region brought several rounds of rain and storms across West Virginia between the 6th and 7th of May.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 7, 2024A weak upper level disturbance moved across the region during the afternoon hours. Afternoon heating coupled with modest dew points resulted in building instability with steep lapse rates.
- Hail in Wisconsin, May 7, 2024A few thunderstorms developed across western Wisconsin in Barron county. The strongest storm produced large hail, with a report of golf ball size hail near Cumberland WI.
- Tornado and Hail in Michigan, May 7, 2024Severe thunderstorms developed during the evening hours of May 7th, resulting in several reports of damaging wind gusts and large hail.
- Flash Flood and Hail in Wisconsin, May 7, 2024On May 6th, scattered storms produced large hail and heavy rainfall across portions of western Wisconsin. In Monroe County, a slow moving storm produced localized flash flooding near Warrens.
- Hail in Iowa, May 7, 2024Scattered strong to severe storms produced quarter sized hail in Winneshiek County during the late afternoon and evening hours on May 7th.
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, May 7, 2024Afternoon and evening storms impacted eastern Kentucky on May 7, 2024. A couple of these storms resulted in severe thunderstorm warnings, though no reports of damage were found.
- Hail in Virginia, May 7, 2024A weak upper wave disturbance move across the region during the afternoon hours. Afternoon heating coupled with modest dew points resulted in building instability with steep lapse rates.
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, May 7, 2024After a line of storms producing damaging winds and tornadoes passed across the area in the morning, a second wave passed over the area. The wave lacked strong forcing and present weak instability, but deep layer shear was high.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Indiana, May 7 to 8, 2024Showers and thunderstorms developed during the late afternoon and evening hours ahead of a low pressure system moving through the Ohio Valley.
- Tornadoes in Ohio, May 7, 2024Thunderstorms produced severe tornadoes and damaging wind gusts on the afternoon and evening of May 7. Large hail occurred in Indiana and Michigan, while three tornadoes were documented in Ohio.
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, May 7, 2024Showers and thunderstorms developed during the late afternoon and evening hours ahead of a low pressure system moving through the Ohio Valley.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Indiana, May 7 to 8, 2024During the evening and early overnight hours on May 7th and 8th, a cold front moved eastward from the mid Mississippi Valley into the Ohio Valley.
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, May 7, 2024Thunderstorms moving through the southern Thumb region produced some wind damage.
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 7, 2024A weakening line of thunderstorms moved into Northwest GA during the evening hours of the 7th.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 7 to 8, 2024Potent low pressure tracked across the Upper Midwest from May 7th into May 8th, pushing an occluded boundary across the Upper Ohio Valley.
- Tornado in West Virginia, May 8, 2024Potent low pressure tracked across the Upper Midwest from May 7th into May 8th, pushing an occluded boundary across the Upper Ohio Valley.
- Hail in Arkansas, May 7, 2024A northward moving warm front initiated weak convection. Isolated and disorganized storm modes raced against the clock to beat out diurnal stability trends. Surface based convection ran out of time as storms were strong, but not severe.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, May 8, 2024Potent low pressure tracked across the Upper Midwest from May 7th into May 8th, pushing an occluded boundary across the Upper Ohio Valley.
- Tornado and Hail in Arkansas, May 7 to 8, 2024An active weather pattern continued into the 8th, much like the 3rd-7th, with rounds of showers and thunderstorms moving into Arkansas from the west and northwest.
- Tornado and Hail in Missouri, May 7 to 8, 2024A major outbreak of severe weather occurred on the 8th for the Quad State region. On the synoptic scale, a longwave trough was centered across the Rockies with deep-layer southwesterly flow from the Southern Plains to the Ohio Valley.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Illinois, May 8 to 9, 2024A major outbreak of severe weather occurred on the 8th for the Quad State region. On the synoptic scale, a longwave trough was centered across the Rockies with deep-layer southwesterly flow from the Southern Plains to the Ohio Valley.
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 8, 2024Isolated tree damage was observed during the early morning hours on May 8th across Lawrence County as a passing disturbance promoted showers and thunderstorms in the Ohio Valley.
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Pennsylvania, May 8, 2024Showers and thunderstorms ahead of a cold front moved across central Pennsylvania during the early morning hours of May 8, 2024.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Tennessee, May 8 to 11, 2024A widespread severe weather event impacted Middle Tennessee beginning in the early morning hours of May 8, 2024, and continued through the early morning hours of May 9th.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 8, 2024The Mid-South was pinched in the warm sector of two frontal boundaries in the early afternoon hours allowing a few strong to severe thunderstorms across Tennessee.
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, May 8, 2024As of 0Z on May 8, a cold front was approaching Kentucky from the north and west. This front this proceeded to stall during the day and into the night.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kentucky, May 8 to 15, 2024A major outbreak of severe weather occurred on the 8th for the Quad State region. On the synoptic scale, a longwave trough was centered across the Rockies with deep-layer southwesterly flow from the Southern Plains to the Ohio Valley.
- Hail in Kansas, May 8, 2024Around 6:30 am on the morning of May 8th, a left-moving supercell developed over southern Johnson County, KS, moving to the north northeast. This supercell produced severe hail up to 2 inches in diameter across Johnson and Wyandotte Counties before crossing into Missouri.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 8, 2024Around 6 AM on May 8th, storms initiated in far eastern Kansas just west of the Missouri state line.
- Flash Flood in U.S. Virgin Islands, May 8, 2024Saturated soils from the previous rainfall events enhanced the risk of flooding, as another mid to upper-level trough lingered across the region.
- Flash Flooding and Debris Flow in Tennessee, May 8 to 9, 2024A cutoff low over the North Plains, coupled with intense winds aloft and a cold front at the surface, helped spawn multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms that produced hail, flash flooding, and damaging winds to East Tennessee.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 8, 2024Two rounds of severe thunderstorms occurred on May 8, 2024. The first round occurred during the morning and early afternoon hours as a surface low pressure system approached the area from the southwest, pushing a strong frontal boundary and shortwave energy/lift into the region.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Missouri, May 8, 2024The bi-state region was threatened with severe thunderstorms on May 8th. Numerous supercells produced very large hail most of the day, and a small QLCS produced multiple tornadoes in southeast Missouri.
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Carolina, May 8, 2024A couple of waves of strong to severe thunderstorms moved from east Tennessee into western North Carolina...one during the afternoon and evening of the 8th, and another during the early morning of the 9th.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 8 to 9, 2024A couple of waves of strong to severe thunderstorms moved into upstate South Carolina from north Georgia and western North Carolina...one during the afternoon and evening of the 8th, and another during the early morning of the 9th.
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Kentucky, May 8 to 9, 2024On May 8th and 9th, 2024, a quasi-stationary frontal boundary was draped from west to east across the Ohio Valley.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, May 8, 2024Numerous severe thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds in southwest Illinois from early afternoon into the evening on May 8th.
- Tornado in Kansas, May 8, 2024A brief landspout tornado developed along a stationary boundary over southern Wallace County. No damage was found, so the tornado has been rated an EF-Unknown.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 8, 2024Severe thunderstorms developed into eastern Oklahoma during the afternoon and continued into the early evening of the 8th, ahead of an approaching cold front.
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Massachusetts, May 8, 2024A strong shortwave coupled with modest instability, strong shear, and steep mid level lapse rates resulted in several severe thunderstorms from western MA to eastern CT to RI to southeast MA. All the severe reports were large hail reports.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 8, 2024The Mid-South was pinched in the warm sector of two frontal boundaries in the early afternoon hours allowing a few strong to severe thunderstorms across Tennessee.
- Hail in Connecticut, May 8, 2024A strong shortwave coupled with modest instability, strong shear, and steep mid level lapse rates resulted in several severe thunderstorms from western MA to eastern CT to RI to southeast MA. All the severe reports were large hail reports.
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 8, 2024An upper disturbance and surface boundary, combined with strong atmospheric instability and moderate deep layer shear, to produce severe thunderstorms that caused some wind damage over the NE Midlands of SC in the late afternoon and early evening.
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 8, 2024An area of thunderstorms across Kentucky and Tennessee tracked east-southeast into the southern Piedmont, Sandhills, and southern Coastal Plain of central North Carolina in the late afternoon and evening hours.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 8, 2024Steep lapse rates aloft and the warmest temperatures of the year helped develop strong instability with SBCAPE 2500-3000 J/kg and LIs down to -8. Thunderstorms developed in associated with a shortwave moving over the southern Appalachians early in the afternoon.
- Hail in Iowa, May 8, 2024Scattered thunderstorms developed along a cold front moving across the region, which timed out to match the diurnal cycle across northwest Iowa. While instability and shear were marginal, the strongest updraft along the line of thunderstorms briefly produced large hail.
- Flash Flood and Hail in Indiana, May 8, 2024Warm and humid conditions, including unseasonable dewpoints as high as 71 degrees at the Vincennes airport, were present across central Indiana ahead of an approaching cold front.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 8, 2024Steep lapse rates aloft and the warmest temperatures of the year helped develop strong instability with SBCAPE 2500-3000 J/kg and LIs down to -8. Thunderstorms developed in associated with a shortwave moving over the southern Appalachians early in the afternoon.
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, May 8, 2024Isolated storms with damaging winds formed across central Virginia off the lee trough during the afternoon of May 8.
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, May 8, 2024A shortwave passed across Iowa, providing focus for late afternoon and evening thunderstorms. The main instability axis remained south of the area, however modest instability was still available for storm growth.
- Hail in Arkansas, May 8, 2024Severe thunderstorms formed over eastern Oklahoma during the afternoon of the 8th, ahead of an approaching cold front. The storms developed east across northwestern Arkansas during the early evening hours. The strongest storms produced large hail up to quarter size.
- Hail in Rhode Island, May 8, 2024A strong shortwave coupled with modest instability, strong shear, and steep mid level lapse rates resulted in several severe thunderstorms from western MA to eastern CT to RI to southeast MA. All the severe reports were large hail reports.
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 8, 2024A few thunderstorms developed and moved through during the evening hours. One particular storm became severe and produced damaging winds.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Alabama, May 8 to 9, 2024A significant outbreak of tornadoes occurred in two waves during the evening of the 8th and early morning hours of the 9th. The first wave occurred as multiple supercell thunderstorms developed across southern middle Tennessee and far north central Alabama.
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, May 8, 2024A slow-moving frontal boundary was draped near the I-70 corridor, and several rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms occurred across the middle Tennessee Valley.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, May 8 to 9, 2024Severe thunderstorms impacted counties along the Red River and in the northeastern portions of North Texas on May 8th. Hail up to golf ball size was the main impact, but 2 small tornadoes occurred in rural parts of Lamar County.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 8 to 9, 2024A significant outbreak of tornadoes occurred in two waves during the evening of the 8th and early morning hours of the 9th. The first wave occurred as multiple supercell thunderstorms developed across southern middle Tennessee and far north central Alabama.
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 8, 2024Deep convection began to develop along an advancing dryline across North Central Texas and Southern Oklahoma during the afternoon on May 8th. A very moist and extremely unstable air mass resided east of the dryline, with MLCAPE values in excess of 4000 J/kg.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Georgia, May 8 to 11, 2024Several waves of severe thunderstorms moved through the area from the evening hours of the 8th through the early afternoon hours of the 9th. Initial convection ahead of the first line was able to tap into ample shear to produce tornadic thunderstorms in Northwest GA.
- Hail in Oklahoma, May 8, 2024Deep convection began to develop along an advancing dryline across North Central Texas and Southern Oklahoma during the afternoon on May 8th. A very moist and extremely unstable air mass resided east of the dryline, with MLCAPE values in excess of 4000 J/kg.
- Hail in Iowa, May 8, 2024The evening hours of May 8th into early morning of May 9th, a line of strong storms moved east across northeast Iowa into northern Illinois and Wisconsin. A few reports of large hail was reported with this line of storms.
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 8, 2024A cutoff low over the North Plains, coupled with intense winds aloft and a cold front at the surface, helped spawn multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms that produced damaging winds and a tornado in southwest North Carolina.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 8, 2024The Mid-South was pinched in the warm sector of two frontal boundaries in the early afternoon hours allowing a few strong to severe thunderstorms across Tennessee.
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 9, 2024A couple of waves of strong to severe thunderstorms moved into northeast Georgia from the northwest...one shortly after midnight, and another during mid-morning of the 9th. A couple of severe storms produced damaging wind gusts.
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 9, 2024A cold front that initiated convection on May 8th continued into the overnight hours of May 9th. Enough lift and instability allowed storms to produce damaging winds and a tornado across West Tennessee.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 9, 2024A significant severe weather event featuring multiple rounds of thunderstorms occurred on May 9th, 2024. The first round, a QLCS, produced three tornadoes in the Midlands of South Carolina.
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 9, 2024An isolated thunderstorm caused minor damage.
- Flash Flood in Arkansas, May 9, 2024A cold front that initiated convection on May 8th continued into the overnight hours of May 9th. Enough instability and precipitable water values were above climatology and resulted in locally heavy rainfall making some roads impassable.
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Alabama, May 9 to 10, 2024An upper-level shortwave moving southward across the South along with an associated surface cold front instigated an outbreak of severe weather across Tennessee and North Alabama.
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 9, 2024A line of strong to briefly severe thunderstorms moved across the South Carolina Piedmont during the morning. A small area of damaging winds was reported in Greenwood County.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 9 to 11, 2024The combination of upper level disturbances moving across west central Texas and a cold front across the area resulted in severe thunderstorms across portions of the Concho Valley and the Heartland.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 9, 2024The combination of strong forcing, instability, and ambient shear combined to produce a significant threat of severe weather across southeast South Carolina during the afternoon hours.
- Hail in Texas, May 9, 2024Strong zonal mid/upper-level flow existed across the southern tier of the CONUS during the day on the 9th. This included a weak upper wave passage across portions of the Red River Valley.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 9, 2024The combination of strong forcing, instability, and ambient shear combined to produce a significant threat of severe weather across southeast Georgia during the afternoon hours.
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, May 9, 2024Strong zonal mid/upper-level flow existed across the southern tier of the CONUS during the day on the 9th. This included a weak upper wave passage across portions of the Red River Valley.
- Tornado in Iowa, May 9, 2024During the afternoon of May 9th, multiple sources reported a landspout tornado associated with a weak thunderstorm south of Charles City, IA. No damage was reported with this landspout tornado.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 9 to 10, 2024May was an incredibly busy month defined by heat, heavy rain, and severe thunderstorms. The main weather event occurred on the 10th when tornadoes and swaths of intense straight-line winds ravaged the Tallahassee area.
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 9, 2024Steep lapse rates and the development of a low level jet of 40-50 knots at 850|mb maintained a southeastward moving squall line, as a cold pool from an upstream MCS progressed southward and pushed convective coverage across the Altamaha/Ocmulgee Rivers during the mid to late…
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 9, 2024Mid-evening severe thunderstorms moved into the area from the west and produced some large hail and damaging wind gusts.
- Hail in Oklahoma, May 9, 2024Strong thunderstorms developed into eastern Oklahoma during the afternoon of the 9th. These storms formed north of a stationary front that was located across northern Texas. The strongest thunderstorms produced hail up to nickel size.
- Hail in Texas, May 9, 2024Surface analysis indicated a stationary front extending across North Texas eastward to near the Arkansas and Louisiana border during the afternoon and evening on May 9th.
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in West Virginia, May 9, 2024An approaching shortwave interacted with a stationary boundary located near the Mason-Dixon Line on May 9th. Strong to severe thunderstorms impacted mainly Preston and Monongalia Counties during the evening hours.
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 9, 2024Scattered thunderstorms during the evening hours produced localized damaging wind gusts.
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Mississippi, May 9, 2024Severe thunderstorms moved across the state of Mississippi and produced damaging wind gusts, hail, and one tornado. Two swaths of wind produced significant damage.
- Tornado and Hail in West Virginia, May 9 to 11, 2024Severe weather was observed across the state on both of May 9th and 11th as the result of a crossing cold front and subsequent upper level disturbances.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 9, 2024Thunderstorms developed near the triple point of low pressure center, frontal boundary, and dryline. Some of these storms produced very large hail in excess of 5 to 6 inches in diameter and produced damaging wind gusts.
- Flash Flood and Hail in Louisiana, May 9, 2024Surface analysis indicated a stationary front extending across North Texas eastward to near the Arkansas and Louisiana border during the afternoon and evening on May 9th.
- Flash Flood and Hail in Louisiana, May 9, 2024Severe thunderstorms moved across northeast Louisiana and produced damaging wind gusts and hail.
- Hail in Texas, May 9, 2024An isolated severe thunderstorm developed in Southeast Texas along a cold front.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, May 9 to 10, 2024Two storm complexes moved across southeastern Mississippi, southwestern Alabama, and into the Florida Panhandle during the early morning hours of 5/10 producing destructive straight-line winds and multiple tornadoes.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 10, 2024Severe thunderstorms moved across the state of Mississippi and produced damaging wind gusts, hail, and one tornado. Two swaths of wind produced significant damage.
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 10, 2024Two storm complexes moved across southeastern Mississippi, southwestern Alabama, and into the Florida Panhandle during the early morning hours of 5/10 producing destructive straight-line winds and multiple tornadoes.
- Tornado and Hail in Alabama, May 10, 2024May was an incredibly busy month defined by heat, heavy rain, and severe thunderstorms. The main weather event occurred on the 10th when tornadoes and swaths of intense straight-line winds ravaged the Tallahassee area.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Florida, May 10, 2024Two storm complexes moved across southeastern Mississippi, southwestern Alabama, and into the Florida Panhandle during the early morning hours of 5/10 producing destructive straight-line winds and multiple tornadoes.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Florida, May 10, 2024May was an incredibly busy month defined by heat, heavy rain, and severe thunderstorms. The main weather event occurred on the 10th when tornadoes and swaths of intense straight-line winds ravaged the Tallahassee area.
- Damaging Winds in Florida, May 10, 2024Several rounds of strong to severe storms impacted NE FL and SE GA ahead of a cold frontal passage. The 1st wave arrived during the morning hours, and the second one with the cold front in the afternoon.
- Damaging Wind in Florida, May 10, 2024An early morning MCS ahead of a slow moving cold front stretching from the Carolinas to the north central Gulf Coast produces gusty winds that down a few trees across Levy County.
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 10, 2024Several rounds of strong to severe storms impacted NE FL and SE GA ahead of a cold frontal passage. The 1st wave arrived during the morning hours, and the second one with the cold front in the afternoon.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 10, 2024An approaching cold front triggered scattered strong to severe thunderstorms, mainly across the Northern Midlands.
- Hail in South Carolina, May 10, 2024Isolated thunderstorms developed along a cold front across the South Carolina Piedmont during the afternoon. One of the storms became severe and produced large hail in Chester County.
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 10, 2024Abundant instability and shear late afternoon after morning clouds cleared out led to scattered storms, some super cellular, across the area (particularly inland) beginning at 3 PM.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 10, 2024Several rounds of thunderstorms developed and moved through the region during the mid afternoon into the evening hours. Some thunderstorms became severe and produced damaging winds and hail up to half dollar size.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 10, 2024A surface cold front draped across southwest Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and northern Alabama and Mississippi led to the development of scattered showers and storms across the southern Piedmont, Sandhills, and Coastal Plain of central North Carolina during the afternoon and…
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, May 10, 2024Abundant instability and shear late afternoon after morning clouds cleared out led to scattered storms, some super cellular, across the area (particularly inland) beginning at 3 PM.
- Hail in Virginia, May 10, 2024A surface low developed along a cold front and moved southeast through the day on May 10. An isolated severe storm developed north of the low and produced large hail across portions of central Virginia.
- Hail in North Carolina, May 10, 2024Isolated thunderstorms developed along a cold front across the southern North Carolina Piedmont during the afternoon and early evening. One of the storms produced hail in Union County.
- Damaging Winds in Minnesota, May 10, 2024Following a cool spring morning, thunderstorms developed across northeastern Minnesota during the afternoon hours as a wave of energy moved into the region out of Canada.
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, May 10, 2024Following a cool spring morning, thunderstorms developed across northeastern Minnesota during the afternoon hours as a wave of energy moved into the region out of Canada.
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Sources
NOAA NCEI, U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters (2025), https://doi.org/10.25921/stkw-7w73, and the Storm Events Database for the episodes.