Alert archive / Louisiana

Weather alerts in Cameron Parish, Louisiana

3,368 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Cameron Parish and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
3,368
Warnings
991
Watches
463
Advisories
985
Busiest year
2024248 alerts
Average year
82over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 53% of tornado reports in Cameron Parish fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 14 minutes before, and 87% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200815473%2100%2 min
20096267%2100%23 min
20112150%0
201210370%250%16 min
2013010%
201420100%0
201510100%0
201620100%0
2017120100%10%
201840100%10%
20199189%250%3 min
202019195%20%
2021100100%0
202230100%10%
202370100%0
202410370%580%17 min
202540100%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200815660%250%30 min
2009271063%1040%15 min
20107443%2100%5 min
2011221150%863%39 min
2012241346%1267%23 min
20133233%250%4 min
20148275%0
201525964%2100%50 min
201614564%2100%29 min
201719953%475%13 min
20187357%367%29 min
201915660%2100%35 min
202018667%580%10 min
202124579%367%62 min
20228188%250%19 min
202326773%3100%28 min
2024331167%911%10 min
2025221055%367%18 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20085180%0
20093233%0
2013440%0
201430100%0
20153233%0
201610730%1100%88 min
201710640%0
20184250%0
201915940%1100%275 min
20205260%0
20218450%0
20223233%1100%44 min
20236350%10%
20248363%1100%11 min
2025220%0

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 7, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCH20 min
Sep 1, 2:03 PM CDTCoastal Flood WarningLCH8 hr
Aug 31, 10:12 PM CDTStorm Surge WarningLCH16 hr
Aug 31, 10:16 AM CDTCoastal Flood WarningLCH7 hr
Aug 31, 10:04 AM CDTTropical Storm WarningLCH36 hr
Aug 21, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCH37 min
Aug 21, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCH44 min
Jul 22, 3:50 AM CDTTropical Storm WarningLCH44 hr
Jul 21, 11:38 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningLCH32 hr
Jun 16, 4:05 PM CDTTropical Storm WarningLCH30 hr
Jun 16, 10:31 AM CDTCoastal Flood WarningLCH32 hr
May 23, 9:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCH33 min

Nearby

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.