Southern Severe Weather

Losses, 2024 dollars

$1.3 billion

Losses at the time

$922 million

Deaths

1

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.

• Hail and Damaging Wind in Louisiana, February 22, 2013$21,000 · 1.75 in hail · 7 eventsLow pressure moving along a stationary front triggered several severe thunderstorms over southeast Louisiana during the evening hours.
• Flash Flooding in Alabama, February 22 to 23, 2013$75,000 · 15 eventsA series of upper level disturbance rotating around a mean longwave trough west of the area brought copious amounts of moisture into the area.
• Tornado and Flash Flooding in Florida, February 24 to 26, 2013$7.6 million · EF0 · 24 eventsA series of upper level disturbance rotating around a mean longwave trough west of the area brought copious amounts of moisture into the area.
• Tornadoes and Hail in Louisiana, February 24 to 25, 2013$150,000 · EF1 · 15 eventsA stationary front was situated over southeast Louisiana during the 24th and 25th. Several waves of low pressure moved along the front, producing several rounds of severe thunderstorms and heavy rainfall.
• Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, February 24, 201359 kt wind · 4 eventsAn intense winter storm system moved into the Texas panhandle during the night of the 24th. A strong cold front surged southward across the Texas panhandle and western Oklahoma.
• Hail and Strong Wind in Texas, February 25 to 26, 20131 injured · $105,000 · 0.75 in hail · 3 eventsA small, early morning storm produced hail up to the size of dimes in Faught in Lamar County. During the afternoon hours, strong and gusty winds occurred ahead of an approaching storm system.
• Hail in Oklahoma, February 25, 20130.75 in hail · 2 eventsThunderstorms developed and moved across portions of eastern Oklahoma on the 25th. The stronger storms produced some hail.
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, February 25, 2013$5,000 · 2 in hail · 11 eventsSeveral storms that produced large golf ball size hail moved east during the mid-morning hours under strong upper level shear and elevated CAPE, on the north side of a warm front that was draped south of Flagler county.
• Hail and Lightning Strike in Arkansas, February 25 to 26, 2013$2,000 · 1 in hail · 10 eventsA strong upper level low pressure system passed by to the northwest of Arkansas on the 25th and 26th. There were numerous reports of hail on the 25th, due to the cold air aloft associated with the low pressure.
• Hail in Texas, February 25, 20131.75 in hail · 3 eventsA warm and unstable airmass developed across the region during the afternoon hours of February 25th. This airmass change was in response to a vigorous storm system that moved into the Southern Plains.
• Hail in Arkansas, February 25, 20131.25 in hail · 4 eventsA warm and unstable airmass developed across the region during the afternoon hours of February 25th. This airmass change was in response to a vigorous storm system that moved into the Southern Plains.
• Hail in Arkansas, February 25, 20130.88 in hail · 3 eventsThunderstorms developed and moved across portions of west-central Arkansas on the 25th. The stronger storms produced some hail.
• Hail in Louisiana, February 25, 20131 in hail · 3 eventsA warm and unstable airmass developed across the region during the afternoon hours of February 25th. This airmass change was in response to a vigorous storm system that moved into the Southern Plains.
• Lightning Strike in Missouri, February 25, 2013$300,000 · 1 eventA thunderstorm produced a lightning strike which hit a building on the southeast side of Springfield.
• Hail in Arkansas, February 25, 2013$5,000 · 1.25 in hail · 3 eventsA strong upper disturbance interacting with a warm front caused a couple severe storms to develop over southeast Arkansas, producing hail.
• Flash Flooding in Mississippi, February 25, 20132 eventsA stationary front was situated over southeast Louisiana during the 24th and 25th. Several waves of low pressure moved along the front, producing several rounds of heavy rainfall over the coastal counties of south Mississippi.
• Damaging Winds in Mississippi, February 25, 2013$16,000 · 50 kt wind · 3 eventsA strong upper disturbance interacting with a warm front caused a couple severe storms to develop over central Mississippi.
• Tornado and Damaging Winds in Florida, February 26, 2013$95,000 · EF0 · 6 eventsA strong cold front moved into the Nature Coast on the morning of the 26th, and passed south through Tampa bay through the afternoon.
• Damaging Winds in Florida, February 26, 2013$500 · 60 kt wind · 7 eventsA strong pre-frontal squall line moved across the area during the morning hours which produced scattered wind damage.
• Flash Flood in Georgia, February 26, 20131 eventAn area of widespread light to moderate rain moved across much of southeast South Carolina and southeast Georgia during the overnight and early morning hours.
• Flash Flood in South Carolina, February 26, 20131 eventAn area of widespread light to moderate rain moved across much of southeast South Carolina and southeast Georgia during the overnight and early morning hours.
• Flash Flooding in South Carolina, February 26, 20132 eventsAn area of widespread light to moderate rain moved across much of southeast South Carolina and southeast Georgia during the overnight and early morning hours.
• Damaging Wind in South Carolina, February 26, 2013$52,000 · 52 kt wind · 1 eventThe triple point of a low pressure system passed just to the northwest of the area and helped to drag a cold front across the Pee Dee Region of South Carolina during the evening.

Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 2013Tornadoes in 2013

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.