Hurricane Beryl
One of the tropical cyclone disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $7.2 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($7.2 billion at the time) and 46 deaths.
What the offices filed during it
The 32 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
- $7.2 billion
- Losses at the time
- $7.2 billion
- Deaths
- 46
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 37 | 2 | 3 | $3.4 million |
| Texas | 33 | 0 | 1 | $1.7 million |
| Indiana | 8 | 0 | 0 | $1.5 million |
| New Mexico | 16 | 0 | 0 | $1.3 million |
| Arkansas | 51 | 0 | 0 | $65,000 |
| Illinois | 1 | 0 | 0 | $50,000 |
| Kentucky | 6 | 0 | 0 | $37,000 |
| Missouri | 18 | 0 | 0 | $33,000 |
| Mississippi | 1 | 0 | 0 | $15,000 |
| Georgia | 3 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| Iowa | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| South Carolina | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Virginia | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wisconsin | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Colorado | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Minnesota | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| North Carolina | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Maryland | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Episode by episode
- Flash Flood in South Carolina, July 6, 2024Back-building thunderstorms trained over a small area led to localized flooding in Florence County, SC.
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 6 to 8, 2024Following showers and thunderstorms over Iowa during the morning hours with a passing shortwave, an additional shortwave arriving in the Central Plains with the aid of increased lift and MUCAPE values around 1000 J/kg overhead brought another round of scattered showers and…
- Tornado and Tropical Storm in Texas, July 7 to 8, 2024Hurricane Beryl moved into Texas during the morning of July 8th. Gusty winds, scattered flooding, and an isolated tornado occurred in deep southeast Texas as the system moved through the region.
- Tornado in Minnesota, July 7, 2024Low pressure located over northern Minnesota the afternoon of July 7th led to the development of scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms over northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin.
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, July 7, 2024Scattered thunderstorms in advance of a frontal boundary produced heavy rain which caused flash flooding across portions of northeast North Carolina.
- Flash Flooding and Hail in New Mexico, July 7 to 8, 2024A backdoor front behind an upper level disturbance over the upper Midwest moved into far northeast NM the morning of July 7th. Additionally, a remnant outflow boundary was draped across far east central NM and west Texas.
- Flash Flood and Hail in Wisconsin, July 7, 2024During the evening hours on July 7th a slow moving thunderstorm moved over portions of northwestern Clark County. These storms produced heavy rainfall totals which resulted in some flooding along County Road O near Greenwood.
- Flash Flooding in Colorado, July 7, 2024Strong storms and flash flooding on July 7th for Prowers, Bent, Otero Counties.
- Flash Flooding in South Carolina, July 7, 2024A cluster of thunderstorms developed along a weakening frontal boundary in the Upstate. The storms held together into the central Midlands, causing flash flooding in the north central Midlands.
- Tropical Storm in Texas, July 8, 2024Beryl became the earliest category 5 atlantic hurricane on July 1st between the Lesser Antilles and the Dominican Republic.
- Tropical Storm and Storm Surge in Louisiana, July 8, 2024Hurricane Beryl made landfall well west of Louisiana, however tide levels still rose above 2 feet above MHHW.
- Tornadoes and Tropical Storm in Texas, July 8, 2024Tropical Storm Beryl briefly strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane with 80 mph winds as it made landfall along the Southeast Texas coast near Matagorda Bay during the early morning hours of July 8th, and tracked north-northeast across East Texas and into Southwest Arkansas…
- Tornadoes in Louisiana, July 8, 2024Tropical Storm Beryl briefly strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane with 80 mph winds as it made landfall along the Southeast Texas coast near Matagorda Bay during the early morning hours of July 8th, and tracked north-northeast across East Texas and into Southwest Arkansas…
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Missouri, July 8, 2024Convection developed during the afternoon of the 8th with activity most widespread between 1200-1700CST. PW values of 2-2.25 inches, bolstered by moisture from Hurricane Beryl to the southwest, resulted in torrential rainfall rates that produced isolated flooding issues.
- Flood in Georgia, July 8, 2024A front north of the region and high pressure across south FL brought prevailing SW flow over the area. Very high atmospheric moisture was in place with PWAT 2.2 to 2.4 inches.
- Tornado in Texas, July 8, 2024Isolated to scattered showers and non-severe thunderstorms developed over parts of Deep South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley on July 8. Atmospheric conditions were conducive for funnel clouds and landspouts this day.
- Flash Flooding in Virginia, July 8, 2024Scattered thunderstorms in advance of a frontal boundary produced heavy rain which caused flash flooding across portions of central and south central Virginia.
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Missouri, July 8, 2024A cluster of showers with embedded thunderstorms tied to a weak shortwave advected into southwest Missouri during the afternoon of July 8, 2024.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 8, 2024Tropical Storm Beryl briefly strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane with 80 mph winds as it made landfall along the Southeast Texas coast near Matagorda Bay during the early morning hours of July 8th, and tracked north-northeast across East Texas and into Southwest Arkansas…
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Arkansas, July 8 to 9, 2024Hurricane Beryl made landfall near Matagorda Texas on the morning of the 8th. The remnants of Beryl quickly tracked northward after landfall, bringing spiral feeder bands of showers and thunderstorms into Arkansas during the afternoon and evening.
- Flash Flooding in Georgia, July 8, 2024Slow moving thunderstorms produced localized flash flooding across the area.
- Tornado in Mississippi, July 9, 2024During the overnight hours of July 8th into the morning of the 9th, the remnants of Beryl moved across the northwest parts of the area. A brief tornado touched down in NE Holmes County and damaged some timber.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kentucky, July 9, 2024The remnants of Hurricane Beryl moved through the Ohio Valley on July 9th. While most of the showers and thunderstorms associated with the remnants of Beryl did not produce severe weather across central Kentucky, one cell in Cumberland and Metcalfe County produced a brief EF0…
- Flooding in Missouri, July 9, 2024The remnants of Hurricane Beryl moved through the Missouri Bootheel region on July 9, 2024, resulting in flash flooding across portions of the eastern Missouri Ozarks. Several roads were closed due to flooding.
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in New Mexico, July 9 to 11, 2024A strong upper level high pressure remained over southern California and Nevada with higher moisture across central and eastern NM.
- Tornadoes in Kentucky, July 9, 2024The remnants of Hurricane Beryl tracked north-northeastward to the Quad State region on the 9th, with the center of circulation following near the Lower Ohio River. The bulk of the stratiform precipitation was northwest of the Quad State, keeping flooding issues from developing.
- Flash Flood in Maryland, July 9, 2024A hot and humid airmass led to showers and thunderstorms around Baltimore. An isolated instance of flash flooding occurred.
- Flash Flood in Indiana, July 9, 2024The remnants of tropical system Beryl moved across northwest Indiana on July 9th. Most of northwest Indiana saw rainfall totals ranging from 3 to 5 inches. The highest reported rainfall amount was 6.05 inches six miles southeast of Rensselaer in Jasper County.
- Flash Flood in Illinois, July 9, 2024The remnants from tropical system Beryl moved across northeast Illinois on July 9th. Many areas along and east of Interstate 57 received 2 to 3 inches with locally higher amounts. The highest rainfall amount reported was 3.93 inches in St. Anne in Kankakee County.
- Tornadoes in Indiana, July 9, 2024The remnants of Hurricane Beryl tracked north-northeastward to the Quad State region on the 9th, with the center of circulation following near the Lower Ohio River. The bulk of the stratiform precipitation was northwest of the Quad State, keeping flooding issues from developing.
- Tornado in Indiana, July 9, 2024The extratropical remnants of Hurricane Beryl tracked from far southern Illinois into southwestern portions of central Indiana through evening hours.
- Flash Flooding in Louisiana, July 9, 2024A stalling cold front initiated thunderstorms along it during the evening hours. Those thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall in a short amount of time over the populated are of New Orleans, causing flash flooding before dissipating shortly after.
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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.