caa a22 4500 46905087X CHVBK 20180323132830.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00124618 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00124618 Storm catastrophes in the United States [Elektronische Daten] [Stanley Changnon, Joyce Changnon] A unique historical data set describing the 142 storms each producing losses in excess of $100 million in the United States during the 1950-89 period were analyzed to describe their temporal characteristics. The storms caused $66.2 billion in losses (in 1991 values), 76% of the nation's insured storm losses in this period. These extreme storm catastrophes (SCs) were most prevalent in the south, southeast, northeast, and central U.S., with few in and west of the Rocky Mountains. Storm incidences were high in the 1950s, low in the 1960s-early 1970s, and increased in the 1980s. Losses due to SCs peaked in the 1950s, again in the late 1960s, with a lesser peak after 1985. The areal extent of storm losses peaked after 1975 and was least in the 1960s. The temporal variations of the three storm measures (incidence, losses, and extent) did not agree except when they all peaked in the 1950s. Regionally-derived time distributions of SCs showed a marked north-south differences in the United States with a U-shaped 40-year distribution in the northern half of the nation, and a relatively flat trend until a peak in the 1980s in the southern regions. The temporal distributions of hurricane-caused catastrophes differed regionally with occurrences in the prime areas, the southern, southeastern, and northeastern U.S., each quite different. Temporal distributions of thunderstorm and winter storm catastrophes were regionally more uniform. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Weather catastrophes nationallicence hurricanes nationallicence thunderstorms nationallicence wind storms nationallicence storms nationallicence climate fluctuations nationallicence insurance nationallicence and hazard planning nationallicence Changnon Stanley Changnon Climatologist, 61853, Mahomet, IL, U.S.A. aut Changnon Joyce Changnon Climatologist, 61853, Mahomet, IL, U.S.A. aut Natural Hazards Kluwer Academic Publishers 6/2(1992-09-01), 93-107 0921-030X 6:2<93 1992 6 11069 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00124618 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00124618 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Changnon Stanley Changnon Climatologist, 61853, Mahomet, IL, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Changnon Joyce Changnon Climatologist, 61853, Mahomet, IL, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Natural Hazards Kluwer Academic Publishers 6/2(1992-09-01), 93-107 0921-030X 6:2<93 1992 6 11069 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer