Alert archive / Louisiana

Weather alerts in Red River Parish, Louisiana

3,643 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Red River Parish and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,643
Warnings
1,054
Watches
618
Advisories
857
Busiest year
2023230 alerts
Average year
89over 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, 67% of tornado reports in Red River Parish fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 12 minutes before, and 69% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20083233%1100%27 min
200912558%367%10 min
20115340%1100%1 min
201220100%0
201380100%10%
201410100%10%
201550100%0
201650100%0
20173167%0
20187186%0
20193167%0
2020440%0
20213233%1100%15 min
20225180%0
20233233%1100%7 min
202410370%0
202510100%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
2008151127%475%23 min
2009301550%786%36 min
201012925%2100%18 min
2011151313%7100%12 min
201217166%6100%18 min
2013221436%743%30 min
2014171041%2100%25 min
2015181517%5100%11 min
201617665%4100%5 min
2017201145%850%29 min
2018221532%4100%28 min
2019241538%2100%36 min
2020241825%580%38 min
202112558%475%13 min
2022191142%2100%24 min
2023382826%1080%23 min
2024291934%786%33 min
2025291548%6100%31 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20083233%0
200910730%1100%108 min
20124325%250%65 min
2013110%0
2015550%1100%147 min
2016211624%333%60 min
20176433%5100%298 min
2018440%0
20195420%2100%62 min
20205340%250%48 min
2021110%0
202220100%0
20236433%333%27 min
202413746%2100%30 min
20257443%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, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV49 min
Aug 21, 12:29 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningSHV20 hr
Jul 22, 12:09 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningSHV20 hr
Jul 13, 4:20 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSHV3 hr
Jul 6, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV67 min
Jul 6, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV76 min
Jul 6, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV60 min
Jul 6, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV65 min
Jun 23, 5:03 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHV3 hr
Jun 23, 4:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV25 min
Jun 20, 10:54 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningSHV3 hr
Jun 20, 7:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHV3 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.