Hurricane Erin
One of the tropical cyclone disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $1.8 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($850 million at the time) and 6 deaths.
What the offices filed during it
The 17 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
- $1.8 billion
- Losses at the time
- $850 million
- Deaths
- 6
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 in Louisiana, July 30, 1995A fire department official saw a small tornado develop in a field behind the Holly Beach Fire House. It was only on the ground for five minutes. This storm was in a rainband of Tropical Storm Dean.
- Tornado in Colorado, July 30, 1995
- Tornado in Texas, July 31, 1995A tornado destroyed two outbuildings, damaged a home, snapped trees and killed a cow.
- Tornado in Texas, August 1, 1995A tornado was reported to have overturned a single-wide mobile home just to the northwest of Robstown.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Florida, August 2, 1995Tornado was embedded in feeder bands from Hurricane Erin. Trees were downed along the track and scattered across A1A.
- Tornado and Hail in North Dakota, August 2, 1995Thunderstorm winds of 55 to 60 mph were also reported.
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, August 2, 1995
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Florida, August 3, 1995A tornado briefly touched down on Hurlburt Field Air Force Base in Mary Esther. Several trees were blown down. The tornado was spawned ahead of Hurricane Erin.
- Tornado in Michigan, August 4, 1995North of Elk Rapids, a cold air waterspout came ashore with enough force to break some six inch limbs out of some trees, and create the classic "Freight Train" sound heard by at least four people in nearby houses. Some minor roof damage was also noted on one house.
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, August 4, 1995A moist and very unstable air mass was in place across Iowa. Lifted indices were in the -12° C. range by the early afternoon hours. Surface temperatures reached the middle to upper 80s with dew point readings in the lower to middle 70s.
- Tornado in Colorado, August 4, 1995A tornado briefly touched down twice just southeast of the downtown Colorado Springs, first near the intersection of Hancock and Las Animas and then at the Fountain View Apartments, at the intersection of Hutchinson Drive and Fountain Blvd.
- Tornado in Ohio, August 5, 1995A tornado touched down near U.S. Highway 52 and destroyed a 100 by 40-foot metal barn. Debris of the barn was found one-half mile away. Several large trees were also downed.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, August 5, 1995Thunderstorms producing hail up to golf ball-size and wind gusts up to 80 mph caused extensive crop damage across the southern portions of Sherman and Howard Counties, northern Buffalo County and western Hall County.
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, August 5, 1995Hail piled in huge drifts and stripped corn in a two mile wide swath. Hail drifts were still evident 24 hours later.
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Maryland, August 6, 1995A few trees were downed by thunderstorm winds throughout the county.
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, August 6, 1995Trees and power lines down.
- Tornado and Hail in Montana, August 7, 1995A light airplane crashed just short of the airport at the time the wind was measured gusting to 68 mph.
More
Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 1995The 1995 hurricane seasonTornadoes in 1995
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.