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Tornado Warnings in Louisiana, 2022

162 tornado warnings in 2022. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2022. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings: 162
Busiest month: December62 tornado warnings
Busiest day: December 14, 202252 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

36 of 162 tornado warnings covering Louisiana in 2022 had a tornado report inside them; 64 of 85 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 16 minutes after it went out.

Louisiana, 2022

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
Tornado warnings	162	36	78%	85	75%	16 min

Each office's whole area, 2022

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
NWS Jackson, MS: tornado warnings	161	69	57%	236	80%	22 min
NWS Shreveport, LA: tornado warnings	108	33	69%	79	72%	20 min
NWS Lake Charles, LA: tornado warnings	51	4	92%	19	32%	22 min
NWS New Orleans, LA: tornado warnings	67	16	76%	38	89%	12 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

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.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 9, 3:57 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Sabine	48 min
Jan 9, 4:27 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Sabine	48 min
Jan 9, 5:11 AM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	SHV	Natchitoches, Sabine	49 min
Feb 22, 6:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides	18 min
Feb 22, 6:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	LaSalle	18 min
Mar 11, 6:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Lafourche, Saint Charles	35 min
Mar 15, 5:23 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Livingston, Tangipahoa	13 min
Mar 15, 5:54 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist	36 min
Mar 15, 6:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Charles	28 min
Mar 15, 6:15 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Lafourche	1 min
Mar 22, 12:51 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caddo	24 min
Mar 22, 10:09 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Allen, Evangeline, Rapides	21 min
Mar 22, 10:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Allen, Evangeline	30 min
Mar 22, 11:07 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	53 min
Mar 22, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Lafourche, Plaquemines, Saint Charles	45 min
Mar 22, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	50 min
Mar 22, 7:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard	38 min
Mar 22, 7:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Washington	34 min
Mar 22, 7:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	37 min
Mar 30, 10:55 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, Webster	50 min
Mar 30, 11:21 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River	39 min
Mar 30, 11:46 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	29 min
Mar 30, 11:51 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Sabine	39 min
Mar 30, 11:57 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Red River, Winn	33 min
Mar 30, 12:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	29 min
Mar 30, 12:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Jackson, Lincoln	43 min
Mar 30, 12:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Calcasieu	27 min
Mar 30, 12:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Jackson, Natchitoches, Winn	38 min
Mar 30, 12:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Winn	52 min
Mar 30, 12:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard	33 min
Mar 30, 12:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	30 min
Mar 30, 12:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	32 min
Mar 30, 12:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union	34 min
Mar 30, 12:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides, Vernon	29 min
Mar 30, 12:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches	40 min
Mar 30, 12:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides, Vernon	35 min
Mar 30, 12:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union	51 min
Mar 30, 1:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Allen, Beauregard	36 min
Mar 30, 1:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides	35 min
Mar 30, 1:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides	30 min
Mar 30, 1:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Morehouse	54 min
Mar 30, 1:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Ouachita	13 min
Mar 30, 1:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Franklin, Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll	53 min
Mar 30, 1:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis	32 min
Mar 30, 2:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Madison, West Carroll	62 min
Mar 30, 2:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Rapides	31 min
Mar 30, 2:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	68 min
Mar 30, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Helena, Tangipahoa, Washington	35 min
Mar 30, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint John the Baptist, Tangipahoa	21 min
Mar 30, 7:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	18 min
Mar 30, 7:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LIX	Saint Tammany	11 min
Mar 30, 8:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Orleans	10 min
Mar 30, 8:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	42 min
Apr 12, 9:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caddo, De Soto	17 min
Apr 12, 9:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Webster	27 min
Apr 12, 9:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo, Webster	23 min
Apr 12, 9:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo, Webster	18 min
Apr 12, 10:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, Webster	29 min
Apr 12, 10:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River	33 min
Apr 12, 10:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Natchitoches, Red River	26 min
Apr 12, 10:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Jackson, Lincoln	38 min
Apr 12, 11:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union	39 min
Apr 13, 3:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Claiborne	24 min
Apr 13, 3:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto, Sabine	31 min
Apr 13, 4:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Grant, Winn	28 min
Apr 13, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Winn	50 min
Apr 13, 5:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caldwell, Jackson, Winn	35 min
Apr 13, 5:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Franklin, Madison, Richland	56 min
Apr 13, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides, Vernon	10 min
Apr 13, 6:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Madison	52 min
Apr 13, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Tensas	55 min
May 6, 12:06 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist	12 min
May 6, 9:22 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Lafourche, Plaquemines, Saint Charles	23 min
Aug 22, 7:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Evangeline, Saint Landry	31 min
Oct 25, 4:57 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia	13 min
Oct 25, 5:07 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia	23 min
Oct 25, 5:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia	28 min
Oct 25, 5:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Saint Landry	24 min
Nov 4, 10:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Lincoln, Webster	23 min
Nov 14, 7:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Cameron, Vermilion	23 min
Nov 26, 2:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Saint Charles	29 min
Nov 26, 3:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Washington	26 min
Nov 29, 11:42 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Allen, Evangeline	33 min
Nov 29, 12:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Evangeline, Saint Landry	34 min
Nov 29, 12:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Evangeline, Saint Landry	28 min
Nov 29, 12:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Saint Landry	30 min
Nov 29, 1:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana	55 min
Nov 29, 2:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Winn	15 min
Nov 29, 4:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caldwell, LaSalle	27 min
Nov 29, 4:04 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Franklin	56 min
Nov 29, 4:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches, Winn	47 min
Nov 29, 4:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison, Tensas	35 min
Nov 29, 4:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Sabine	49 min
Nov 29, 5:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Sabine	30 min
Nov 29, 5:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caldwell, LaSalle	41 min
Nov 29, 6:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	JAN	Franklin, Madison, Tensas	66 min
Nov 29, 7:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Madison	59 min
Nov 29, 10:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	East Feliciana, West Feliciana	29 min
Nov 30, 2:00 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Livingston	30 min
Nov 30, 2:38 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Washington	5 min
Dec 13, 2:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Sabine	30 min
Dec 13, 2:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto, Sabine	47 min
Dec 13, 3:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caddo	31 min
Dec 13, 3:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	36 min
Dec 13, 4:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Sabine	27 min
Dec 13, 4:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caddo, De Soto	50 min
Dec 13, 4:48 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	SHV	Bossier, Caddo, De Soto	27 min
Dec 13, 4:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier, Webster	23 min
Dec 13, 5:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto, Sabine	43 min
Dec 13, 5:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto, Red River	18 min
Dec 13, 6:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides	18 min
Dec 13, 8:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Grant, LaSalle	42 min
Dec 13, 8:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Sabine	39 min
Dec 13, 8:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Union	38 min
Dec 13, 8:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Ouachita	14 min
Dec 13, 8:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll	53 min
Dec 13, 9:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll, West Carroll	28 min
Dec 13, 9:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Franklin, Madison, Tensas	64 min
Dec 13, 10:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Allen	29 min
Dec 13, 10:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Madison	63 min
Dec 13, 10:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Allen, Rapides	24 min
Dec 13, 11:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides	16 min
Dec 13, 11:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Madison	66 min
Dec 14, 12:04 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides	13 min
Dec 14, 12:13 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	LaSalle	32 min
Dec 14, 12:56 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Concordia	37 min
Dec 14, 1:04 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Rapides	12 min
Dec 14, 1:50 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Concordia	55 min
Dec 14, 2:10 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Avoyelles	34 min
Dec 14, 3:05 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Avoyelles	55 min
Dec 14, 4:56 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	34 min
Dec 14, 6:52 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Saint Landry	38 min
Dec 14, 7:27 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis	48 min
Dec 14, 8:06 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jefferson Davis	24 min
Dec 14, 8:53 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Evangeline, Saint Landry	37 min
Dec 14, 9:29 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Evangeline, Saint Landry	31 min
Dec 14, 10:36 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Iberia	24 min
Dec 14, 10:44 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Iberia, Vermilion	22 min
Dec 14, 11:01 AM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LCH	Iberia, Saint Martin	29 min
Dec 14, 11:25 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary	35 min
Dec 14, 11:37 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Livingston, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa	38 min
Dec 14, 11:39 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Washington	19 min
Dec 14, 11:44 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa	25 min
Dec 14, 11:54 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Washington	36 min
Dec 14, 11:57 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington	48 min
Dec 14, 11:58 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Helena, Tangipahoa	34 min
Dec 14, 12:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Ascension, Assumption, Iberville, Saint James	32 min
Dec 14, 12:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Washington	30 min
Dec 14, 12:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa, Washington	44 min
Dec 14, 12:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Livingston, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa	43 min
Dec 14, 12:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Ascension, Livingston	39 min
Dec 14, 12:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Livingston, Tangipahoa	28 min
Dec 14, 12:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Helena	15 min
Dec 14, 12:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa, Washington	41 min
Dec 14, 2:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist	17 min
Dec 14, 2:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Lafourche, Saint Charles	29 min
Dec 14, 2:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	33 min
Dec 14, 3:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LIX	Saint Tammany	11 min
Dec 14, 3:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Lafourche, Saint Charles	31 min
Dec 14, 3:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Orleans, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles	46 min
Dec 14, 4:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Plaquemines, Saint Bernard	28 min
Dec 14, 5:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Plaquemines	18 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record The radar archive 2021 2023

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.