Hurricane Allen
One of the tropical cyclone disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $2.2 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($590 million at the time) and 13 deaths.
What the offices filed during it
The 10 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
- $2.2 billion
- Losses at the time
- $590 million
- Deaths
- 13
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 | 56 | 0 | 31 | $337 million |
| Nebraska | 41 | 0 | 0 | $275,000 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | 0 | 0 | $250,000 |
| Florida | 1 | 0 | 0 | $250,000 |
| New Hampshire | 1 | 0 | 0 | $250,000 |
| North Dakota | 24 | 0 | 0 | |
| Colorado | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Episode by episode
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Dakota, August 6, 1980
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, August 7, 1980
- Tornado in Colorado, August 7, 1980
- Tornado in Florida, August 8, 1980
- Tornado in New Hampshire, August 8, 1980
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 9, 1980
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, August 10, 1980
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 10, 1980
- Tornadoes in Texas, August 11, 1980
- Tornado in Texas, August 12, 1980
More
Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 1980The 1980 hurricane seasonTornadoes in 1980
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.