The U.S. has already endured 12 billion-dollar disasters in 2023, according to a new report from NOAA:
Only one other year – 2017 – had more billion-dollar disasters in the first six months than 2023, NOAA said. Record-keeping for billion-dollar disasters in the U.S. dates back to 1980.
The combined total of these 2023 disasters is $32.7 billion. That's second only to 2021 for total damage toll through the first half of any year since 1980, according to NOAA.Here is NOAA's list of these 12 disasters, in chronological order, along with their latest damage estimates.
. At least 33 tornadoes were confirmed by the National Weather Service, including EF2 tornadoes near Kirby, Arkansas, and Fremont, Kentucky. Wind gusts from 70 to 90 mph hammered the Dallas-Fort Worth metro.March 24-26 , including Rolling Fork, Silver City, Tchula, Winona and Amory, Mississippi, claiming 21 lives in Mississippi and another in Alabama. An EF3 tornado ripped through parts of Troup County, Georgia. Damaging winds also swept through parts of Ohio, western Pennsylvania and West Virginia.At least 145 tornadoes, along with damaging thunderstorm winds, tore through large swaths of the Midwest, Tennessee Valley and East from March 31 through April 1.
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