Southeast Severe Weather
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
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
| State | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 30 | 0 | 34 | $357 million |
| Mississippi | 36 | 15 | 269 | $169 million |
| Georgia | 39 | 6 | 154 | $65 million |
| Ohio | 16 | 0 | 21 | $53 million |
| Indiana | 28 | 0 | 6 | $22 million |
| Alabama | 34 | 0 | 55 | $16 million |
| Louisiana | 48 | 0 | 29 | $12 million |
| South Carolina | 13 | 1 | 9 | $8.3 million |
| North Carolina | 22 | 2 | 67 | $7.3 million |
| Kentucky | 7 | 1 | 9 | $2.6 million |
| Maryland | 1 | 0 | 0 | $2.5 million |
| Virginia | 9 | 0 | 0 | $75,000 |
| Tennessee | 8 | 1 | 3 | $25,000 |
| Florida | 5 | 0 | 0 | $250 |
| Arkansas | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Michigan | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Episode by episode
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Louisiana, November 20, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, November 21, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Louisiana, November 21, 1992
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, November 21, 1992
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, November 21, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, November 22, 1992
- Hail in Louisiana, November 22, 1992
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, November 22, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, November 22, 1992
- Tornado and Hail in Tennessee, November 22, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Georgia, November 22, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Indiana, November 22, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kentucky, November 22, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in Ohio, November 22, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Carolina, November 22, 1992
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, November 22, 1992
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Carolina, November 22, 1992
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Virginia, November 23, 1992
- Hail in Virginia, November 22, 1992
- Tornadoes in North Carolina, November 23, 1992
- Tornado in Maryland, November 23, 1992
- Tornado in Texas, November 23, 1992
- Hail in Louisiana, November 23, 1992
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Alabama, November 24, 1992
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Florida, November 24, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, November 24, 1992
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Georgia, November 24, 1992
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, November 24, 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.