Texas Hail Storm
One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $1.2 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($575 million at the time).
What the offices filed during it
The 11 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
- $1.2 billion
- Losses at the time
- $575 million
- 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
- Damaging Wind in Florida, April 26, 1995A severe thunderstorm blew down trees and power lines in Bassville.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Idaho, April 27, 1995,,,,,,,,Blowing Dust
- Damaging Winds in Oregon, April 27, 1995Thunderstorm winds reportedly blew down telephone poles in Baker City.
- Damaging Winds in Florida, April 27, 1995Large trees toppled.
- Damaging Winds in Florida, April 28, 1995Large trees toppled at Camp Blanding military reservation.
- Hail in Kansas, April 28, 1995
- Hail in Kansas, April 29, 1995
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, April 29, 1995Damage from hail across the county was extensive with car dealerships reporting the most damage. The damage estimate for the county was $20 million.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, April 29, 1995Severe thunderstorms in northern Oklahoma dropped hail as large as quarters in Grant County three miles east of Renfrow and in Kay County four miles east of Newkirk and in Blackwell.
- Hail in Missouri, April 29, 1995
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, April 29, 1995An isolated severe thunderstorm produced dime size hail in Fort Smith.
More
Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 1995Tornadoes in 1995
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.