Template:10 costliest US tornadoes
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| Rank | Area affected | Date | Damage 1 | Adjusted Damage 2 |
| 1 | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | May 3, 1999 | 1000 | 963 |
| 2 | Wichita Falls, Texas | April 10, 1979 | 400 | 884 |
| 3 | Omaha, Nebraska | May 6, 1975 | 250 | 745 |
| 4 | Lubbock, Texas Tornado | May 11, 1970 | 135 | 558 |
| 5 | Topeka, Kansas Tornado | June 8, 1966 | 100 | 494 |
| 6 | Windsor Locks/Poquonock, Connecticut | October 3, 1979 | 200 | 442 |
| 7 | St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado | May 27, 1896 | 12 | 380 |
| 8 | Xenia, Ohio | April 3, 1974 | 100 | 325 |
| 9 | North-central Georgia | March 31, 1973 | 89 | 321 |
| 10 | Worcester, MA | June 9, 1953 | 52 | 311 |
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Source: Brooks, Harold E.; C.A. Doswell (Feb 2001). "Normalized Damage from Major Tornadoes in the United States: 1890–1999". Weather and Forecasting 16 (1): 168-76. American Meteorological Society. 3 |
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1. These are the unadjusted damage totals in millions of US dollars. 2. Raw damage totals adjusted for inflation, in thousands of 1997 USD. 3. Search of NCDC Storm Data indicates no tornadoes since 1999 have caused more than $210 million in damage, so this source is up-to-date. |
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