Billion-dollar disasters

Severe Storms, Tornadoes

March 26 to 29, 1991 · Severe Storm · $1.5 billion in 2024 dollars

One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $1.5 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($645 million at the time).

What the offices filed during it

The 47 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
$1.5 billion
Losses at the time
$645 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
Illinois4207$75 million
Georgia74028$51 million
Michigan106339$41 million
Kansas102013$31 million
Indiana4426$25 million
Ohio53018$25 million
North Carolina20037$11 million
Wisconsin2515$7.5 million
Oklahoma2300$5.3 million
Alabama37542$2.8 million
South Carolina1304$500,000
Iowa901$500,000
Texas2000$25,000
Idaho300$25,000
Virginia300$25,000
Tennessee2500$250
Mississippi2202
New York1400
Missouri900
Louisiana900
California700
Pennsylvania700
Nebraska600
Kentucky501
Arkansas100
Minnesota100

Episode by episode

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Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 1991Tornadoes in 1991

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.