Hurricane Alicia
One of the tropical cyclone disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $9.4 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($3.0 billion at the time) and 21 deaths.
What the offices filed during it
The 12 most significant tropical cyclone 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
- $9.4 billion
- Losses at the time
- $3.0 billion
- Deaths
- 21
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
Episode by episode
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, August 16, 1983
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Arizona, August 16, 1983
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 17, 1983
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, August 17, 1983
- Tornadoes in Texas, August 17, 1983
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 18, 1983
- Tornado in Idaho, August 18, 1983
- Tornado in Wyoming, August 18, 1983
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Michigan, August 21, 1983
- Tornado in Oklahoma, August 21, 1983
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, August 21, 1983
- Tornado in Nevada, August 21, 1983
More
Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 1983The 1983 hurricane seasonTornadoes in 1983
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.