Southern and Eastern Severe Weather
One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $2.7 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($2.7 billion at the time).
What the offices filed during it
The 66 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
- $2.7 billion
- Losses at the time
- $2.7 billion
- 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 | 221 | 1 | 0 | $14 million |
| Hawaii | 7 | 0 | 0 | $14 million |
| Mississippi | 91 | 2 | 7 | $6.4 million |
| Florida | 101 | 0 | 1 | $3.8 million |
| West Virginia | 111 | 1 | 0 | $2.8 million |
| Louisiana | 128 | 1 | 4 | $2.6 million |
| Pennsylvania | 52 | 0 | 0 | $1.2 million |
| North Carolina | 72 | 0 | 2 | $573,000 |
| Virginia | 49 | 0 | 0 | $375,000 |
| Illinois | 6 | 0 | 0 | $145,000 |
| Tennessee | 50 | 0 | 0 | $99,000 |
| Kentucky | 3 | 0 | 0 | $53,000 |
| Arkansas | 7 | 0 | 0 | $45,000 |
| Iowa | 4 | 0 | 0 | $20,000 |
| Puerto Rico | 6 | 0 | 3 | $12,000 |
| Maryland | 1 | 0 | 0 | $6,000 |
| New Hampshire | 2 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| Georgia | 55 | 0 | 0 | |
| Maine | 18 | 0 | 0 | |
| Alabama | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Oklahoma | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| Nevada | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ohio | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Episode by episode
- Flash Flooding and Debris Flow in Puerto Rico, April 7 to 9, 2024Increase in moisture, remnants of a cold front to our north and a nearby prefrontal surface trough approached the islands and sinked southward, creating favorable weather |conditions for unsettled weather and above normal moisture.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, April 7, 2024A surface low was east of the area with two associated surface boundaries draped across the area. By late afternoon the two boundaries began to merge with thunderstorm development in central to northern Iowa.
- Tornado and Hail in Illinois, April 7, 2024On the afternoon of April 7th, convection fired along a cold front stretching along the Mississippi River. There was an isolated threat of severe weather through the evening hours.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, April 7, 2024A strong surface low-pressure system moved across the Central Plains while the associated cold front pushed into the Mid-South from the west on April 7, 2024. A narrow ribbon of moisture advected northward ahead of the front resulting in enough instability for severe storms.
- Hail in Mississippi, April 7, 2024A strong surface low-pressure system moved across the Central Plains while the associated cold front pushed into the Mid-South from the west on April 7, 2024. A narrow ribbon of moisture advected northward ahead of the front resulting in enough instability for severe storms.
- Flash Flood in Mississippi, April 8, 2024An isolated, slow moving thunderstorm caused localized flash flooding in western Grenada County around midday on April 8th.
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, April 8, 2024A stationary front extended along and just north of the Interstate 40 corridor during the afternoon of April 8, 2024. A moist and unstable airmass was located along and south of the boundary.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, April 8, 2024A stationary front extended along and just north of the Interstate 40 corridor during the afternoon of April 8, 2024. A moist and unstable airmass was located along and south of the boundary.
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, April 8 to 9, 2024A frontal boundary became stationary across the heart of the Ark-La-Tex region in vicinity of the Interstate 30 corridor on April 8th before slowly advancing southeast on April 9th.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, April 8 to 9, 2024Several rounds of severe thunderstorms developed from the afternoon of the eighth into the late morning hours of the ninth. A slow moving closed off upper level low pressure system moved across Arizona and New Mexico on these days.
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Texas, April 8 to 10, 2024Multiple rounds of thunderstorms occurred from Monday April 8 through Wednesday April 10 as a deep low pressure system moved east through the Rockies, eventually transitioning to an open trough as it traversed the Plains.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, April 8, 2024An isolated thunderstorm moved across far northwest Middle Tennessee during the late afternoon of April 8, 2024. With abundant instability, this thunderstorm became severe in west Tennessee before crossing the Tennessee River.
- Hail in Texas, April 8, 2024A broad, positively tilted trough across the Four Corners aided in the development of scattered severe thunderstorms ahead of the dryline across portions of the northeast Permian Basin.
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, April 8, 2024Severe thunderstorms brought damaging winds and large hail to central and southwest Arkansas.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, April 8 to 9, 2024Severe thunderstorms produced large hail and damaging winds across portions of Haskell, Throckmorton and Fisher counties during the afternoon and evening.
- Damaging Wind in Texas, April 8, 2024Broad southwesterly mid-level flow prevailed across the Southern Plains on the 8th. Widespread thunderstorm development occurred in the vicinity of a quasi-stationary boundary across west-central into north-central Texas during the evening hours.
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Louisiana, April 8 to 19, 2024A frontal boundary became stationary across the heart of the Ark-La-Tex region in vicinity of the Interstate 30 corridor on April 8th before slowly advancing southeast on April 9th.
- Hail in Oklahoma, April 8, 2024Broad southwesterly mid-level flow prevailed across the Southern Plains on the 8th. Widespread thunderstorm development occurred in the vicinity of a quasi-stationary boundary across west-central into north-central Texas during the evening hours.
- Hail in Texas, April 8 to 9, 2024Thunderstorms developed across the southeastern Texas Panhandle and moved east during the evening of April 8th. The atmosphere had enough instability in place for a few storms to become strong and produce sub-severe hail.
- Hail in Oklahoma, April 8, 2024Strong to severe thunderstorms spread into southeastern Oklahoma from north Texas during the late evening of the 8th. The strongest thunderstorm produced large hail up to quarter size.
- Hail in Texas, April 9, 2024An much larger convective complex moved into the Texas Panhandle from the south during the early morning hours of the 9th. Some remaining instability in the atmosphere further west in Carson County helped a storm produce more hail in the size of pennies near Pantex.
- Damaging Winds in Texas, April 9, 2024A round of prolonged and widespread convection occurred across portions of western-north Texas into far southwest Oklahoma on the 9th.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, April 9, 2024Thunderstorms developed along outflow boundaries and a dryline in a warm, moist airmass. Some of these storms produced large hail. There was large hail across the Austin area as well as in Marble Falls.
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Arkansas, April 9 to 10, 2024Thunderstorms produced heavy rain and flash flooding in the vicinity of Dermott, Arkansas during the morning of April 9th.
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, April 9 to 10, 2024A severe thunderstorm moving east across northern Louisiana intensified and grew in scale as it encountered showers and thunderstorms over Northeast Louisiana. The resulting line of severe thunderstorms produced significant wind damage and heavy rainfall.
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Texas, April 9 to 10, 2024A strong upper low forced a round of severe thunderstorms across the region. Flooding, high wind gusts, hail, and tornadoes occurred in Southeast Texas as a result of this system.
- Hail in Ohio, April 9, 2024A weak surface trough axis drifted southward across Lake Erie and to the southern lakeshore during the afternoon through early evening of the 9th.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, April 9 to 10, 2024A line of severe thunderstorms produced significant wind damage, heavy rain, hail, and a tornado as it crossed from Northeast Louisiana into Mississippi during the evening of April 9th. Subsequent heavy rain and storms continued into the daytime of April 10th.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, April 9, 2024A round of prolonged and widespread convection occurred across portions of western-north Texas into far southwest Oklahoma on the 9th.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, April 9 to 10, 2024A line of strong to severe storms stretching along a cold front quickly developed as it extended NNE to SSW into the Rio Grande Plains and interacted with strong instability late on the April 9th into the early morning hours of the 10th.
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, April 9 to 10, 2024Late night through early morning severe thunderstorms moved eastward across the area and produced hail, strong winds and some tornadoes.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Louisiana, April 9 to 10, 2024A strong upper low moved across the region and interacted with a frontal boundary that was moving south across the area. Flooding, high wind gusts, hail, and tornadoes occurred in Louisiana as a result of this system.
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Mississippi, April 10, 2024Moisture advecting northward ahead of a surface low over the Lower Mississippi Valley fed showers and thunderstorms across northern Mississippi. These slow-moving thunderstorms moved across an area already saturated from previous rains.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Louisiana, April 10, 2024A strong upper level disturbance, surface low, and cold front produced a line of severe thunderstorms that pushed across Southeast Louisiana and Southern Mississippi in the morning and early afternoon hours of Wednesday, April 10, 2024.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Mississippi, April 10, 2024A strong upper level disturbance, surface low, and cold front produced a line of severe thunderstorms that pushed across Southeast Louisiana and Southern Mississippi in the morning and early afternoon hours of Wednesday, April 10, 2024.
- Tornado and Coastal Flood in Alabama, April 10, 2024A severe line of thunderstorms moved across the Gulf Coast during the day. This line of storms produced large and damaging winds along with a couple of tornadoes.
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, April 10, 2024A severe line of thunderstorms moved across the Gulf Coast during the day. This line of storms produced large and damaging winds along with a couple of tornadoes.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Florida, April 10, 2024A severe line of thunderstorms moved across the Gulf Coast during the day. This line of storms produced large and damaging winds along with a couple of tornadoes.
- Flash Flooding in Mississippi, April 10, 2024Slow moving storms produced heavy rain which caused flooding in southeast Mississippi.
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Florida, April 10 to 17, 2024A major flash flood event occurred across portions of the Florida big bend and southern Georgia during the late night hours of April 10th through the early morning hours of April 11th.
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 10, 2024Clusters of thunderstorms moved across the tri-state area during the afternoon on April 10th.
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Georgia, April 10 to 11, 2024A major flash flood event occurred across portions of the Florida big bend and southern Georgia during the late night hours of April 10th through the early morning hours of April 11th.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, April 10 to 11, 2024A shortwave weather system with a strong winds aloft and a sharp pressure gradient helped generate a mountain wave event in the East Tennessee mountains followed by severe thunderstorms in the Tennessee Valley.
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Florida, April 10 to 11, 2024Several waves of strong to severe storms moved across the area. One wave brought locally heavy rainfall across the Suwannee River Valley, then as the low level jet approach through midday, shear increased as did diurnal instability which then produced strong to severe storms and…
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in West Virginia, April 11 to 16, 2024Showers and thunderstorms developed on the afternoon of April 11th due to the combination of unseasonably warm temperatures and a passing disturbance. Storms crossed in from the Ohio River Valley during the early afternoon and continued an eastward progression into the evening.
- Hail in Virginia, April 11, 2024A shortwave weather system with a strong winds and ample cold air aloft helped fuel a severe thunderstorm in southwest Virginia.
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, April 11 to 12, 2024A strong mid-level trough and an associated frontal zone crossed through the|Mid-South and took aim on the OH Valley.
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Pennsylvania, April 11 to 12, 2024A strong mid-level trough and an associated frontal zone crossed through the|Mid-South and took aim on the OH Valley.
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, April 11, 2024Scattered to numerous thunderstorms and small lines of storms developed across western North Carolina ahead of a cold front during the afternoon and evening. Multiple strong to severe storms developed, producing one tornado and several areas of damaging straight line winds.
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, April 11, 2024An area of low pressure tracked across the area during the evening hours. Numerous showers and thunderstorms were associated with this system.
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Virginia, April 11, 2024An area of low pressure tracked across the area during the evening hours. Numerous showers and thunderstorms were associated with this system.
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, April 11, 2024A strong area of low pressure across the Tennessee valley tracked up into the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region, bringing a cold front through central North Carolina.
- Flash Flooding in Virginia, April 11 to 12, 2024Active weather in the form of strong thunderstorms occurred on the afternoon of April 11th, with main impacts observed in southwest Virginia occurring due to flash flooding.
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, April 11, 2024A line of thunderstorms produced localized wind damage over portions of central Virginia into southern Maryland during the late evening to overnight hours.
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, April 11, 2024Scattered severe thunderstorms in advance of low pressure and a cold front produced damaging winds across portions of central, south central and southeast Virginia.
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, April 11, 2024Isolated severe thunderstorm in advance of low pressure and a cold front produced damaging winds across portions of northeast North Carolina.
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, April 12, 2024A line of thunderstorms produced localized wind damage over portions of central Virginia into southern Maryland during the late evening to overnight hours.
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Hawaii, April 11 to 12, 2024A strong low pressure system to the northwest of the Hawaiian Islands along with an associated surface trough brought abundant moisture and an unstable atmosphere to the region.
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Maine, April 12 to 15, 2024A cold front brought widespread soaking rainfall to the area. This rainfall combined with significant snowpack loss and saturated grounds to produce minor to moderate river flooding, with isolated flash flooding across the mountains.
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, April 12, 2024After the low pressure system and multiple fronts passed through on the 11th, having caused damage to far eastern Kentucky, the system moved to the northeast, where it combined into one very strong surface low pressure system by April 12th.
- Flash Flood and Flood in New Hampshire, April 12 to 13, 2024A cold front brought widespread soaking rainfall to the area. This rainfall combined with significant snowpack loss and saturated grounds to produce minor to moderate river flooding, with isolated flash flooding across the mountains.
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, April 12, 2024A strong upper level trough over the southern Appalachians pivoted across the Carolinas during the evening. This resulted in a band of showers and embedded storms across portions of central North Carolina.
- Tornado and Hail in Kentucky, April 12, 2024Showers and a few thunderstorms developed along a cold front that moved through the Ohio Valley.
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, April 12, 2024An unstable atmosphere and a strong upper level disturbance combined to bring several reports of tees down.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, April 12, 2024A potent system moved through the southern half of NC during the afternoon and evening hours, with thunderstorms becoming severe as they moved through the southern Piedmont of NC, and into the southern coastal plain counties, all the way to the coast through mid evening.
- Damaging Winds and High Wind in Nevada, April 12, 2024Mid-level instability lead to cu-buildups and some more organized thunderstorms across Humboldt and Lander. These storms produce gusty outflow winds.
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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.