Alert archive / Louisiana

Weather alerts in Jackson Parish, Louisiana

3,474 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Jackson Parish and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,474
Warnings
974
Watches
626
Advisories
815
Busiest year
2023202 alerts
Average year
85over 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, 64% of tornado reports in Jackson Parish fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 20 minutes before, and 70% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20087271%367%5 min
200910730%250%17 min
20105180%0
20117443%2100%16 min
20122150%0
20137186%0
201520100%0
201660100%0
201740100%60%
201813192%0
20196433%580%23 min
202020100%0
20213167%0
20227357%3100%19 min
20234175%3100%24 min
20244175%1100%47 min
20258275%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
2008241538%2619%23 min
2009251540%450%27 min
201013931%683%19 min
2011271737%2100%18 min
2012322328%786%20 min
2013302323%1090%31 min
201413838%10%
2015211624%683%29 min
2016201240%475%14 min
201711109%1050%30 min
2018221436%989%19 min
2019281546%2100%15 min
202017166%5100%25 min
2021181328%4100%13 min
2022181517%633%9 min
2023331942%7100%26 min
2024201335%1100%16 min
2025362725%3100%42 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20083167%0
20095420%2100%35 min
2011330%1100%79 min
20123167%1100%308 min
2013110%0
2014220%2100%141 min
20157529%0
201612925%2100%296 min
20174175%0
2018440%1100%170 min
20193233%0
2020880%0
202110100%0
2022110%0
20235340%2100%66 min
20246350%0
20256433%1100%47 min

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
Aug 21, 12:29 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningSHV20 hr
Jul 22, 12:09 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningSHV20 hr
Jul 20, 10:20 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningSHV26 hr
Jul 6, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV56 min
Jul 6, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV27 min
Jul 4, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV53 min
Jul 4, 5:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHV3 hr
Jul 1, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV57 min
Jun 23, 11:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV38 min
Jun 23, 1:08 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSHV3 hr
Jun 20, 11:51 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningSHV3 hr
Jun 20, 7:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHV5 hr

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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.