Tornadoes, Severe Storms, Floods
One of the severe storm disasters on NOAA’s billion-dollar list: $1.9 billion in losses at 2024 prices ($603 million at the time) and 80 deaths.
What the offices filed during it
The 46 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
- $1.9 billion
- Losses at the time
- $603 million
- Deaths
- 80
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 49 | 42 | 805 | $351 million |
| South Carolina | 71 | 18 | 464 | $230 million |
| Arkansas | 33 | 0 | 4 | $53 million |
| Georgia | 47 | 0 | 4 | $550,000 |
| Illinois | 13 | 0 | 0 | $525,000 |
| Mississippi | 16 | 0 | 6 | $250,000 |
| Texas | 86 | 0 | 0 | $58,000 |
| Louisiana | 63 | 0 | 0 | $55,000 |
| Kansas | 7 | 0 | 0 | $28,000 |
| Alabama | 34 | 0 | 1 | $28,000 |
| Pennsylvania | 2 | 0 | 1 | $25,000 |
| Missouri | 32 | 0 | 0 | $250 |
| Florida | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| Oklahoma | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Kentucky | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Virginia | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Maryland | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Idaho | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tennessee | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Delaware | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Massachusetts | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| New Mexico | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Episode by episode
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, March 26, 1984
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, March 27, 1984
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, March 27, 1984
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, March 27, 1984
- Tornadoes and Hail in Louisiana, March 27, 1984
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, March 27, 1984
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 27, 1984
- Hail in Florida, March 27, 1984
- Hail in Georgia, March 27, 1984
- Hail in Tennessee, March 27, 1984
- Tornadoes and Hail in Alabama, March 28, 1984
- Tornadoes and Hail in Georgia, March 28, 1984
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Carolina, March 28, 1984
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Carolina, March 28, 1984
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Virginia, March 28, 1984
- Damaging Wind in Massachusetts, March 29, 1984
- Hail in New Mexico, April 1, 1984
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, April 1, 1984
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, April 2, 1984
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, April 2, 1984
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, April 2, 1984
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 3, 1984
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, April 3, 1984
- Tornadoes and Hail in Arkansas, April 3, 1984
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, April 3, 1984
- Tornadoes and Hail in Illinois, April 3, 1984
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, April 3, 1984
- Hail in Kentucky, April 3, 1984
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 3, 1984
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, April 3, 1984
- Damaging Wind in Florida, April 4, 1984
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, April 4, 1984
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, April 4, 1984
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Maryland, April 5, 1984
- Hail in Virginia, April 5, 1984
- Hail in Delaware, April 5, 1984
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, April 5, 1984
- Hail in Missouri, April 6, 1984
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, April 7, 1984
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, April 7, 1984
- Tornado in Texas, April 8, 1984
- Damaging Winds in Florida, April 8, 1984
- Tornado and Hail in Arkansas, April 8, 1984
- Tornadoes and Hail in Louisiana, April 8, 1984
- Damaging Winds in Idaho, April 8, 1984
- Tornado and Hail in Mississippi, April 8, 1984
More
Every billion-dollar disasterEvery storm of 1984Tornadoes in 1984
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.