Severe Storms
One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $1.6 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($480 million at the time) and 30 deaths.
What the offices filed during it
The 108 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
- $480 million
- Deaths
- 30
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 57 | 0 | 4 | $5.0 million |
| South Carolina | 28 | 0 | 16 | $5.0 million |
| Texas | 89 | 0 | 6 | $3.8 million |
| Iowa | 13 | 0 | 0 | $2.5 million |
| Florida | 10 | 0 | 0 | $800,000 |
| Oklahoma | 70 | 0 | 0 | $601,000 |
| Wyoming | 5 | 0 | 7 | $300,000 |
| Michigan | 2 | 0 | 0 | $275,000 |
| South Dakota | 24 | 0 | 1 | $250,000 |
| Kansas | 97 | 0 | 0 | $250,000 |
| Illinois | 56 | 0 | 1 | $250,000 |
| Missouri | 120 | 0 | 0 | $250,000 |
| Georgia | 18 | 0 | 0 | $250,000 |
| Alabama | 12 | 0 | 0 | $250,000 |
| Nebraska | 25 | 0 | 0 | $53,000 |
| North Carolina | 22 | 0 | 1 | $50,000 |
| North Dakota | 11 | 0 | 0 | $50,000 |
| Indiana | 52 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 |
| Tennessee | 4 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 |
| Maryland | 1 | 0 | 0 | $3,000 |
| Colorado | 34 | 0 | 0 | $240 |
| Virginia | 7 | 0 | 0 | $30 |
| New Mexico | 3 | 0 | 0 | $30 |
| Arkansas | 29 | 0 | 0 | |
| Louisiana | 18 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ohio | 16 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mississippi | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Montana | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| New York | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Episode by episode
- Tornadoes in Nebraska, May 29, 1982
- Hail in Georgia, May 29, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 30, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 30, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in Illinois, May 30, 1982
- Tornado in Maryland, May 30, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, May 30, 1982
- Damaging Wind in Florida, May 30, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 30, 1982
- Hail in Georgia, May 30, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 30, 1982
- Hail in North Carolina, May 30, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, May 30, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 30, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, May 30, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 30, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 31, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 31, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 31, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 31, 1982
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Illinois, May 31, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kentucky, May 31, 1982
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 31, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 31, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, May 31, 1982
- Tornado and Hail in Indiana, May 31, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 31, 1982
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, May 31, 1982
- Tornadoes in Michigan, May 31, 1982
- Damaging Wind in New York, June 1, 1982
- Tornado in Virginia, June 1, 1982
- Tornado and Hail in Colorado, June 1, 1982
- Hail in Nebraska, June 2, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, June 2, 1982
- Tornado in Florida, June 2, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, June 2, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, June 3, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, June 3, 1982
- Tornado and Hail in North Carolina, June 3, 1982
- Tornado in Tennessee, June 3, 1982
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 3, 1982
- Tornadoes in Florida, June 3, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 3, 1982
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, June 3, 1982
- Hail in Arkansas, June 3, 1982
- Damaging Wind in Texas, June 3, 1982
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 4, 1982
- Hail in Tennessee, June 4, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 4, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, June 4, 1982
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 4, 1982
- Tornado in Oklahoma, June 4, 1982
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 5, 1982
- Hail in South Carolina, June 5, 1982
- Hail in North Dakota, June 5, 1982
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 5, 1982
- Tornadoes in Wyoming, June 5, 1982
- Hail in New Mexico, June 5, 1982
- Tornado and Hail in South Dakota, June 5, 1982
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 5, 1982
- Hail in South Dakota, June 6, 1982
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, June 6, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Dakota, June 6, 1982
- Hail in Kansas, June 6, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 7, 1982
- Tornado and Hail in Missouri, June 7, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, June 7, 1982
- Hail in Montana, June 7, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, June 7, 1982
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, June 7, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, June 8, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, June 8, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, June 8, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 8, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 8, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, June 8, 1982
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, June 8, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 8, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Dakota, June 8, 1982
- Hail in Texas, June 8, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 9, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, June 9, 1982
- Tornado in Florida, June 9, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 9, 1982
- Tornado in Texas, June 9, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, June 9, 1982
- Hail in South Carolina, June 9, 1982
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, June 9, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 9, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 9, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, June 9, 1982
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 9, 1982
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, June 10, 1982
- Tornado and Hail in North Carolina, June 10, 1982
- Tornado and Hail in Georgia, June 10, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Carolina, June 10, 1982
- Hail in Louisiana, June 10, 1982
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in New Mexico, June 10, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, June 10, 1982
- Hail in Colorado, June 10, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 11, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, June 11, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, June 11, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 11, 1982
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Florida, June 11, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, June 11, 1982
- Tornado and Hail in South Dakota, June 11, 1982
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, June 11, 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.