Hail, Tornadoes
One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $2.2 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($954 million at the time).
What the offices filed during it
The 8 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
- $2.2 billion
- Losses at the time
- $954 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 69 | 0 | 8 | |
| Oklahoma | 29 | 0 | 0 | |
| North Carolina | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| New Mexico | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wyoming | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| South Carolina | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Episode by episode
- Hail in New Mexico, April 26, 1992
- Damaging Wind in Wyoming, April 27, 1992
- Hail in Oklahoma, April 27, 1992
- Hail in South Carolina, April 28, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, April 28, 1992
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, April 28, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, April 29, 1992
- Hail in North Carolina, April 30, 1992
More
Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 1992Tornadoes in 1992
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.