Colorado Hail Storm
One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $2.0 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($820 million at the time).
What the offices filed during it
The 52 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
- $2.0 billion
- Losses at the time
- $820 million
- Deaths
- 0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 13 | 0 | 60 | $250,000 |
| Idaho | 1 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 |
| Florida | 14 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| Iowa | 2 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| Virginia | 48 | 0 | 5 | $3,000 |
| Tennessee | 12 | 0 | 1 | $3,000 |
| Georgia | 18 | 0 | 0 | |
| North Carolina | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ohio | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| Kentucky | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Maryland | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Alabama | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| West Virginia | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| South Carolina | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Arkansas | 4 | 0 | 3 | |
| South Dakota | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Pennsylvania | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Texas | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Nebraska | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Missouri | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Montana | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Arizona | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Minnesota | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Oregon | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Nevada | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Illinois | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| North Dakota | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Delaware | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mississippi | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| California | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| New Mexico | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| New Jersey | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Episode by episode
- Damaging Wind in Nevada, July 9, 1990
- Damaging Wind in Texas, July 9, 1990
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 9, 1990
- Hail in Illinois, July 9, 1990
- Tornado in Idaho, July 9, 1990
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 10, 1990
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, July 10, 1990
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, July 10, 1990
- Damaging Winds in Florida, July 10, 1990
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 10, 1990
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, July 10, 1990
- Hail in North Dakota, July 10, 1990
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 10, 1990
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, July 10, 1990
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 10, 1990
- Damaging Winds in Maryland, July 10, 1990
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 10, 1990
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, July 10, 1990
- Hail in Montana, July 10, 1990
- Damaging Wind in Delaware, July 10, 1990
- Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 10, 1990
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, July 10, 1990
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 10, 1990
- Hail and Damaging Winds in West Virginia, July 11, 1990
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 11, 1990
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, July 11, 1990
- Tornado and Hail in Virginia, July 11, 1990
- Tornadoes and Hail in Florida, July 11, 1990
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 11, 1990
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, July 11, 1990
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 11, 1990
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 11, 1990
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, July 11, 1990
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 11, 1990
- Tornadoes in Iowa, July 11, 1990
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, July 11, 1990
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, July 11, 1990
- Tornadoes in Minnesota, July 11, 1990
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, July 11, 1990
- Damaging Winds in Oregon, July 11, 1990
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 11, 1990
- Tornado in Nebraska, July 11, 1990
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 11, 1990
- Damaging Wind in California, July 12, 1990
- Tornado in New Mexico, July 12, 1990
- Tornado and Hail in Virginia, July 12, 1990
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 12, 1990
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Florida, July 12, 1990
- Damaging Wind in New Jersey, July 12, 1990
- Damaging Winds in Maryland, July 12, 1990
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, July 12, 1990
- Hail in Texas, July 12, 1990
More
Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 1990Tornadoes in 1990
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.