Billion-dollar disasters

Severe Storms, Hail

June 19 to 20, 1992 · Severe Storm · $1.7 billion in 2024 dollars

One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $1.7 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($748 million at the time).

What the offices filed during it

The 54 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
$1.7 billion
Losses at the time
$748 million
Deaths
0

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
Texas6602$3.3 million
Kentucky2700$2.5 million
Oklahoma15204$2.5 million
Indiana3202$500,000
Ohio5600$250,000
Colorado4201$50,000
Iowa1100$30,000
Pennsylvania600$25,000
Florida400$25,000
Illinois300$3,000
Kansas54069$250
New Mexico903$250
Louisiana47023
Arkansas4100
North Carolina3301
Mississippi3200
South Carolina2100
Tennessee2000
Alabama1800
North Dakota800
South Dakota700
Michigan500
Georgia500
Wyoming400
Minnesota300
Virginia300
Idaho200
West Virginia103
Nebraska100

Episode by episode

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Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 1992Tornadoes in 1992

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.