Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters 1990-2001

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Assignment:

Using the data below, make a graph showing the number of billion dollar disasters, financial damage and number of deaths by year.

Determine what year you think was the worst and why.
Copy your finished graph into Word and write a few sentences summing up your findings.
Make sure the graph has all proper titles and labels.
Make sure that titles are capitalized.

Year	Disaster	Cost	Deaths
2001	Tropical Storm Allison	$5.0 billion	41
2000	Drought/Heat Wave (south-central and southeast)	$4.0	0
2000	Western Fire Season	$2.0 billion	0
1999	Hurricane Floyd	$6.0	77
1999	Eastern Drought/Heat Wave	$1.0 billion	502
1999	Oklahoma-Kansas Tornadoes	$1.1 billion	55
1999	Arkansas-Tennessee Tornadoes	$1.3 billion	17
1998	Texas Flooding	$1.0 billion	31
1998	Hurricane Georges	$5.9 billion	16
1998	HurricaneBonnie	$1.0billion	3
1998	SouthernDrought/Heat Wave	$9.0billion	200
1998	MinnesotaSevere Storms/Hail	$1.5billion	1
1998	SoutheastSevere Weather	$1.0billion	132
1998	NortheastIce Storm	$1.4billion	16
1997	NorthernPlains Flooding	$3.7billion	11
1997	MS and OH Valleys Flooding and Tornadoes	$1.0billion	67
1997	WestCoast Flooding	$3.0billion	36
1996	HurricaneFran	$5.0billion	37
1996	SouthernPlains Severe Drought	$5.0billion	0
1996	PacificNorthwest Severe Flooding	$1.0billion	9
1996	Blizzardof '96 Followed by Flooding	$3.0billion	187
1995	HurricaneOpal	$3.0billion	27
1995	HurricaneMarilyn	$2.1billion	13
1995	Texas/Oklahoma/Louisiana/Mississippi Flooding	$6.0billion	32
1995	CaliforniaFlooding	$3.0billion	27
1994	WesternFire Season	$1.0billion	?
1994	TexasFlooding	$1.0billion	19
1994	TropicalStorm Alberto	$1.0billion	32
1994	SoutheastIce Storm	$3.0billion	9
1993	CaliforniaWildfires	$1.0billion	4
1993	MidwestFlooding	$21.0 billion	48
1993	Drought/HeatWave	$1.0billion	16
1993	Storm/Blizzard	$6.0 billion	270
1992	Nor'easterof 1992	$2.0billion	?
1992	HurricaneIniki	$1.8billion	7
1992	HurricaneAndrew	$27.0billion	61
1991	OaklandFirestorm	$2.5billion	25
1991	HurricaneBob	$1.5 billion	18
1990	Texas/Oklahoma/Louisiana/ArkansasFlooding	$1.0billion	13

Before you can do the graph you must combine the data from the chart above. Use the worksheetbelow to help you. The years 2001 and 2000 have been done for you.