Hurricane Marilyn
One of the tropical cyclone disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $4.3 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($2.1 billion at the time) and 13 deaths.
What the offices filed during it
The 4 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
- $4.3 billion
- Losses at the time
- $2.1 billion
- 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
Episode by episode
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Florida, September 14, 1995Winds gusted to 64 knots at the Jacksonville International Airport. Trees were uprooted on Old St. Augustine Road. JEA reported more than 20,000 customers lost power during the storm, with most of the outages on the south and west sides of Jacksonville.
- Tornado in Florida, September 15, 1995A tornado, 15-feet wide sporatically touched down along a six mile path as it moved south over Pine Island. The first brief touchdown occurred near Pine Island Center where it rolled a 2,000 pound flatbed tractor-semitrailer 150 feet across a grass field.
- Tornado in Colorado, September 17, 1995A small tornado downed several trees and destroyed a satellite dish.
- Tornado in Colorado, September 18, 1995Tornado observed moving northeast over open country.
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.