Midwest/Plains/Southeast Tornadoes
One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $1.6 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($483 million at the time) and 33 deaths.
What the offices filed during it
The 33 most significant severe storm 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
- $1.6 billion
- Losses at the time
- $483 million
- Deaths
- 33
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 13 | 3 | 80 | $100 million |
| Texas | 36 | 11 | 174 | $56 million |
| Missouri | 50 | 2 | 28 | $51 million |
| Arkansas | 25 | 14 | 90 | $34 million |
| Illinois | 31 | 0 | 20 | $26 million |
| Oklahoma | 19 | 0 | 30 | $16 million |
| Georgia | 12 | 0 | 1 | $5.0 million |
| Tennessee | 10 | 0 | 1 | $3.3 million |
| Ohio | 13 | 0 | 10 | $2.8 million |
| Kentucky | 20 | 0 | 0 | $275,000 |
| Kansas | 8 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 |
| Iowa | 8 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 |
| Pennsylvania | 4 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 |
| Louisiana | 15 | 0 | 0 | $250 |
| Indiana | 49 | 0 | 0 | |
| Maryland | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Minnesota | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Alabama | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| North Dakota | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| South Dakota | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Virginia | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Delaware | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Episode by episode
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, April 1, 1982
- Hail in Texas, April 1, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, April 2, 1982
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, April 2, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Dakota, April 2, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, April 2, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in Illinois, April 2, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in Arkansas, April 2, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, April 2, 1982
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, April 2, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, April 2, 1982
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, April 2, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, April 2, 1982
- Tornado and Hail in Louisiana, April 2, 1982
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, April 2, 1982
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, April 2, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, April 2, 1982
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, April 3, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, April 3, 1982
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Illinois, April 3, 1982
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, April 3, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, April 3, 1982
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Ohio, April 3, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, April 3, 1982
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Georgia, April 3, 1982
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, April 3, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, April 3, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, April 3, 1982
- Damaging Wind in Delaware, April 3, 1982
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, April 4, 1982
- Hail in Kentucky, April 5, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 5, 1982
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Georgia, April 5, 1982
More
Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 1982Tornadoes in 1982
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.