Southern Severe Weather
One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $1.1 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($1.1 billion at the time).
What the offices filed during it
The 33 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
- $1.1 billion
- Losses at the time
- $1.1 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
Episode by episode
- Hail in Indiana, February 8, 2024A cluster of mostly sub-severe thunderstorms during the evening of the 8th produced a couple of instances of severe hail in northwest Indiana.
- Hail in Wisconsin, February 8, 2024A long-lived low pressure system churned from the Central to Northern Plains February 7th through February 8th.
- Tornado in Kansas, February 9, 2024A brief landspout tornado was reported through social media over rural areas of Finney county. A few photos of the landspout were taken.
- Tornado and Hail in Arkansas, February 9, 2024Severe thunderstorms brought large hail to parts of Arkansas on February 9, 2024.
- Hail in Illinois, February 10, 2024Surface low pressure tracked along a frontal boundary that advanced into the I-64 corridor of Southern Illinois during the pre-dawn hours on the 10th.
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Indiana, February 10, 2024A line of showers and thunderstorms developed in the early morning hours of February 10, 2024, ahead of a cold front in an environment that had very strong shear but little instability.
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, February 10, 2024A line of showers and thunderstorms developed in the early morning hours of February 10, 2024, ahead of a cold front in an environment that had very strong shear but little instability.
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, February 10, 2024Scattered thunderstorms moved through the Ohio Valley during the early morning hours as a low pressure system moved through the region.
- Hail in Texas, February 10, 2024Thunderstorms developed along a stationary front over South Central Texas. Some of these storms produced large hail.
- Hail in Illinois, February 10, 2024Scattered multicellular convection was expected ahead of a cold front on the night of February 10th.
- Hail in Texas, February 10 to 11, 2024Scattered thunderstorms developed across much of west central Texas during the late evening of February 10th and the early morning hours of February 11th. Several of the storms were severe and produced large hail.
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, February 10 to 12, 2024Severe thunderstorms occurred across portions of Mississippi along a stalled frontal boundary that had settled into the area.
- Hail in Texas, February 11, 2024A broken line of thunderstorms moved through Central Texas the night of February 10th into the 11th. The line and clusters of storms south of the line produced large hail generally in a line from Comanche to Hillsboro to Athens/Palestine.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, February 11, 2024Numerous severe thunderstorms developed in the early morning hours on February 11th along and ahead of a slowly advancing cold front stretching across East Texas and North Louisiana.
- Hail in Texas, February 11, 2024Numerous severe thunderstorms developed in the early morning hours on February 11th along and ahead of a slowly advancing cold front stretching across East Texas and North Louisiana.
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, February 11, 2024Morning and afternoon severe thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front and produced wind damage and hail. Several spotters also reported funnel clouds.
- Hail in Texas, February 11, 2024Thunderstorms developed along a stationary front over South Central Texas. Some of these storms produced large hail.
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Louisiana, February 11, 2024Severe thunderstorms occurred across portions of Louisiana along a stalled frontal boundary that had settled into the area.
- Hail in Texas, February 11, 2024A warm front lifted north across Southeast Texas ahead of an approaching low pressure system. Scattered showers and storms occurred along the boundary with a couple becoming severe.
- Flash Flood and Hail in Louisiana, February 11, 2024A warm front lifted north across the region early during the 11th ahead of an approaching low pressure system. Scattered thunderstorms develop along the warm front with some becoming severe.
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Alabama, February 11 to 13, 2024A slow-moving storm system brought several inches of rainfall to most of Central Alabama from early morning on February 11 through the evening of February 12.
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Georgia, February 11 to 14, 2024A period of persistent thunderstorms moved through the area with an initial warm front early in the morning and later a weak cold front overnight. Weak instability resulted in mostly benign activity, aside from a single report of each hail and wind damage.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, February 11 to 12, 2024By mid-afternoon on February 11th, an upper level trough over the Texas Panhandle was moving eastward. A cold front associated with this feature was moving east through Texas, eventually across southern Louisiana and Mississippi.
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, February 11, 2024By mid-afternoon on February 11th, an upper level trough over the Texas Panhandle was moving eastward. A cold front associated with this feature was moving east through Texas, eventually across southern Louisiana and Mississippi.
- Damaging Wind in Florida, February 12, 2024A line of thunderstorms trained across parts of the tri-state area, bringing flash flooding to portions of southeast Alabama and southwest Georgia.
- Flash Flooding in Alabama, February 12, 2024A line of thunderstorms trained across parts of the tri-state area, bringing flash flooding to portions of southeast Alabama and southwest Georgia.
- Flash Flooding in Georgia, February 12, 2024A line of thunderstorms trained across parts of the tri-state area, bringing flash flooding to portions of southeast Alabama and southwest Georgia.
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, February 12, 2024As a low pressure lifted northeast through the mid South and the tip of northwest Alabama into middle Tennessee, a band of thunderstorms along a pre-frontal trough attached to the low pushed northeast through north Alabama during the midday into the afternoon hours.
- Flash Flood in Tennessee, February 12, 2024Heavy rain moved into Middle Tennessee on February 12, 2024. This was the fourth consecutive day of rain across the area, so grounds were already saturated.
- Damaging Wind and High Wind in Tennessee, February 12 to 13, 2024A low pressure system brought a squall of strong to severe thunderstorms across East Tennessee, with ambient non-thunderstorm winds near or at high wind criteria.
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, February 12 to 13, 2024A frontal system intensified as it moved from the southern Mississippi River Valley into the Carolinas and southwestern Virginia on February 12. Some marginal instability developed ahead of the approaching low pressure that allowed for isolated severe thunderstorms to develop.
- Damaging Wind and Winter Weather in Virginia, February 12 to 13, 2024A low pressure system brought first a squall of strong to severe thunderstorms through Southwest Virginia, then on the backside a light snow to higher elevations.
- Damaging Winds in West Virginia, February 12, 2024A frontal system intensified as it moved from the southern Mississippi River Valley into the Carolinas and southeast West Virginia on February 12. Some marginal instability developed ahead of the approaching low pressure that allowed for isolated severe thunderstorms to develop.
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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.