Severe Storms, Hail
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
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
| State | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 66 | 0 | 2 | $3.3 million |
| Kentucky | 27 | 0 | 0 | $2.5 million |
| Oklahoma | 152 | 0 | 4 | $2.5 million |
| Indiana | 32 | 0 | 2 | $500,000 |
| Ohio | 56 | 0 | 0 | $250,000 |
| Colorado | 42 | 0 | 1 | $50,000 |
| Iowa | 11 | 0 | 0 | $30,000 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 |
| Florida | 4 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 |
| Illinois | 3 | 0 | 0 | $3,000 |
| Kansas | 54 | 0 | 69 | $250 |
| New Mexico | 9 | 0 | 3 | $250 |
| Louisiana | 47 | 0 | 23 | |
| Arkansas | 41 | 0 | 0 | |
| North Carolina | 33 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mississippi | 32 | 0 | 0 | |
| South Carolina | 21 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tennessee | 20 | 0 | 0 | |
| Alabama | 18 | 0 | 0 | |
| North Dakota | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| South Dakota | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Michigan | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Georgia | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wyoming | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Minnesota | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Virginia | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Idaho | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| West Virginia | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| Nebraska | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Episode by episode
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 17, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 17, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Indiana, June 18, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, June 18, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Ohio, June 18, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kentucky, June 18, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, June 18, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 18, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 18, 1992
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, June 18, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 18, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Dakota, June 18, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, June 18, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 18, 1992
- Hail in New Mexico, June 18, 1992
- Hail in Kansas, June 18, 1992
- Hail in South Dakota, June 18, 1992
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 18, 1992
- Damaging Winds in Idaho, June 18, 1992
- Hail in Minnesota, June 18, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 19, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, June 19, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, June 19, 1992
- Hail in Nebraska, June 19, 1992
- Tornado in Pennsylvania, June 19, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, June 19, 1992
- Hail in Minnesota, June 19, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, June 19, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 19, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 19, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, June 19, 1992
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, June 19, 1992
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, June 19, 1992
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 19, 1992
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Illinois, June 19, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, June 19, 1992
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 19, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 20, 1992
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 20, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 20, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 20, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Wyoming, June 20, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, June 20, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, June 20, 1992
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 20, 1992
- Tornado and Hail in New Mexico, June 20, 1992
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 20, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, June 21, 1992
- Tornado and Hail in North Carolina, June 21, 1992
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 21, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Carolina, June 21, 1992
- Hail in South Dakota, June 21, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, June 21, 1992
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 21, 1992
More
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.