This analysis explores the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) storm database, which describes the features of major weather events from 1950 to 2011. The current report focuses on damage to the public health (injuries and fatalities) and to the economy of the affected communities. In order to accomplish the goal, a normalization of the storm database is needed given the timespan of included events. A simple approach is taken for other features of the database that requires cleansing, like the way economic damages are expressed in the data. The analysis confirmed that the information of most recent events have better quality in the database, last years are more complete. By far the most harmful events are tornadoes in terms of public health, and floods regarding damage to the economy.