So what do you suppose did more damage. The crater shown here or the cyclone shown here? Note, they have not gotten to the outer villages where the people live in thatch huts.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/20/us/tropical-cyclone-winston-fiji/
I lived in Fiji from ‘67 to ‘70 when my father was station manager for Pan Am. I know the types of housing out there and pray that those and those I know are safe.
You and your cyclones.
You may enjoy reading about hypercanes, which, if they have ever existed, might have a shot of ending human society in a large swath of the world. Of course, the only plausible heat source for such a thing would be an asteroid impact. Hypercanes were hypothesized as a side effect of the Chicxulub impact at the K-T boundary.
Storms, no matter how many deaths and how much damage they cause, don’t threaten mass extinction. Unlike impacts from space, people usually have sufficient warning — even in very remote areas — and can seek shelter.
Large impacts from space are so powerful there’s no way to reasonably take cover. We’d all still try, of course.
Impacts — Catastrophism.
Storms — not.