Billion-dollar disasters

Severe Storms and Hail

June 13 to 17, 1984 · Severe Storm · $1.4 billion in 2024 dollars

One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $1.4 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($446 million at the time) and 1 deaths.

What the offices filed during it

The 90 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

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The toll

Losses, 2024 dollars
$1.4 billion
Losses at the time
$446 million
Deaths
1

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

StateEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage filed
Nebraska4306$11 million
Michigan1302$5.3 million
Kansas2800$1.0 million
Iowa3106$608,000
Illinois500$500,000
Wyoming2801$353,000
Colorado43020$28,000
South Dakota1420$25,000
Montana1000$25,000
Alabama900$25,000
Oklahoma700$25,000
Wisconsin1000$3,000
North Dakota900$3,000
Ohio25313
Indiana1600
New York1100
Minnesota900
Texas600
Massachusetts500
Arkansas500
Connecticut400
North Carolina400
Louisiana400
Idaho300
Tennessee300
Nevada300
Missouri300
New Mexico200
Maryland200
Florida200
Virginia200
West Virginia200
Mississippi100
Rhode Island100
New Jersey100
Vermont100
New Hampshire100
Maine100
Utah100

Episode by episode

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Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 1984Tornadoes in 1984

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.