Billion-dollar disasters

Southeast Severe Weather

November 21 to 23, 1992 · 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 ($657 million at the time) and 26 deaths.

What the offices filed during it

The 28 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
$657 million
Deaths
26

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
Texas30034$357 million
Mississippi3615269$169 million
Georgia396154$65 million
Ohio16021$53 million
Indiana2806$22 million
Alabama34055$16 million
Louisiana48029$12 million
South Carolina1319$8.3 million
North Carolina22267$7.3 million
Kentucky719$2.6 million
Maryland100$2.5 million
Virginia900$75,000
Tennessee813$25,000
Florida500$250
Arkansas400
Michigan100

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.