This project involves a storm data set sourced from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) storm database. This dataset catalogs weather events across the united states (from 1950 to November 2011) and (among other things) details the fatalities, injuries, property damage and crop damage for each event therein. We are interested in determined which classes of weather events have 1) the elicit the greatest 1) effects on population health (through fatalities and injuries) and 2) economic losses (through property and crop damage).