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Tornado Warnings in Louisiana, 2024

168 tornado warnings in 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings: 168
Busiest month: July49 tornado warnings
Busiest day: July 8, 202444 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.

57 of 168 tornado warnings covering Louisiana in 2024 had a tornado report inside them; 80 of 116 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 16 minutes after it went out.

Louisiana, 2024

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
Tornado warnings	168	57	66%	116	69%	16 min

Each office's whole area, 2024

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
NWS Jackson, MS: tornado warnings	51	21	59%	75	76%	22 min
NWS New Orleans, LA: tornado warnings	48	15	69%	40	63%	13 min
NWS Lake Charles, LA: tornado warnings	107	18	83%	48	69%	21 min
NWS Shreveport, LA: tornado warnings	109	45	59%	84	74%	15 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 8, 3:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Lafourche, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist	25 min
Jan 9, 12:46 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist	13 min
Jan 9, 1:49 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard	15 min
Jan 12, 6:56 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll	50 min
Feb 11, 2:04 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	13 min
Feb 11, 2:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides, Vernon	27 min
Feb 11, 11:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Iberia, Saint Martin, St. Mary	32 min
Mar 4, 12:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard	15 min
Mar 15, 11:13 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches	18 min
Mar 15, 1:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Orleans, Saint Tammany	39 min
Apr 9, 8:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Sabine	26 min
Apr 10, 6:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron	33 min
Apr 10, 6:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	43 min
Apr 10, 6:29 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis	31 min
Apr 10, 6:33 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia, Saint Landry	42 min
Apr 10, 6:39 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	36 min
Apr 10, 6:55 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge	25 min
Apr 10, 7:04 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Saint Landry	56 min
Apr 10, 7:11 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia, Evangeline, Lafayette, Saint Landry	25 min
Apr 10, 7:34 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Evangeline, Saint Landry, Saint Martin	26 min
Apr 10, 8:06 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	LIX	East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana	24 min
Apr 10, 8:41 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	28 min
Apr 10, 9:53 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	52 min
Apr 10, 10:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	52 min
Apr 26, 10:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Union	27 min
Apr 28, 7:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	24 min
Apr 28, 7:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier, Webster	25 min
Apr 29, 12:49 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	26 min
Apr 29, 1:37 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides	23 min
Apr 29, 4:21 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron	24 min
May 2, 9:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	11 min
May 2, 10:09 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Sabine	22 min
May 2, 11:16 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	29 min
May 2, 11:45 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jefferson Davis	15 min
May 2, 12:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Jefferson Davis	9 min
May 13, 4:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu	37 min
May 13, 4:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	26 min
May 13, 4:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis	34 min
May 13, 5:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	34 min
May 13, 5:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia, Jefferson Davis	13 min
May 13, 6:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia, Lafayette, Saint Martin	24 min
May 13, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Saint Martin	15 min
May 13, 6:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge	22 min
May 13, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Saint Martin	20 min
May 13, 6:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Iberville	15 min
May 13, 6:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge	16 min
May 13, 7:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston	23 min
May 13, 8:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint John the Baptist, Tangipahoa	13 min
May 16, 8:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	7 min
May 16, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Cameron, Vermilion	24 min
May 16, 9:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Lafayette, Saint Martin	18 min
May 16, 9:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Iberia, Saint Martin	28 min
May 16, 10:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Ascension, Saint James	25 min
May 16, 10:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LIX	Saint James, Saint John the Baptist	21 min
May 16, 11:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist	14 min
May 22, 7:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Webster	28 min
May 29, 1:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Cameron	17 min
May 30, 6:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caddo, De Soto	31 min
May 30, 7:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto	25 min
May 30, 7:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo, De Soto	35 min
May 30, 8:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	18 min
May 30, 9:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches	26 min
May 30, 9:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides, Vernon	33 min
May 30, 9:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides	26 min
Jun 4, 5:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Helena, Tangipahoa	41 min
Jun 4, 5:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa, Washington	27 min
Jun 4, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington	34 min
Jun 27, 6:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LCH	Calcasieu	16 min
Jul 7, 3:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Evangeline, Rapides	27 min
Jul 8, 12:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Sabine	56 min
Jul 8, 1:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine	28 min
Jul 8, 1:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard, Vernon	22 min
Jul 8, 1:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto	36 min
Jul 8, 1:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto, Sabine	47 min
Jul 8, 1:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine	64 min
Jul 8, 1:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	27 min
Jul 8, 1:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caddo, De Soto	45 min
Jul 8, 1:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Natchitoches	53 min
Jul 8, 2:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Grant, Natchitoches, Winn	40 min
Jul 8, 2:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Red River	49 min
Jul 8, 2:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	SHV	Caddo	39 min
Jul 8, 2:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caddo, De Soto, Red River	16 min
Jul 8, 2:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Red River	25 min
Jul 8, 2:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	SHV	Bossier	46 min
Jul 8, 2:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Natchitoches, Winn	28 min
Jul 8, 2:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo, De Soto	35 min
Jul 8, 2:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Natchitoches, Red River	47 min
Jul 8, 3:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Natchitoches, Winn	52 min
Jul 8, 3:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	49 min
Jul 8, 3:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	SHV	De Soto, Sabine	39 min
Jul 8, 3:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	31 min
Jul 8, 3:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Red River, Webster	46 min
Jul 8, 3:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Claiborne, Webster	44 min
Jul 8, 3:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	38 min
Jul 8, 3:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Red River	24 min
Jul 8, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto, Sabine	45 min
Jul 8, 4:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier, Claiborne, Webster	39 min
Jul 8, 4:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier, Webster	38 min
Jul 8, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	49 min
Jul 8, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	SHV	Claiborne, Webster	40 min
Jul 8, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caddo, De Soto	50 min
Jul 8, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caddo, De Soto	15 min
Jul 8, 5:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier, Caddo	39 min
Jul 8, 5:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caddo, De Soto	26 min
Jul 8, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River	49 min
Jul 8, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	De Soto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine	34 min
Jul 8, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Natchitoches	40 min
Jul 8, 5:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier	36 min
Jul 8, 6:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bossier	15 min
Jul 8, 6:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Claiborne, Jackson, Lincoln	26 min
Jul 8, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Claiborne, Lincoln	25 min
Jul 8, 6:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union	41 min
Jul 8, 6:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Claiborne, Union	36 min
Jul 8, 7:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Jackson, Winn	28 min
Jul 8, 8:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Franklin, Richland	33 min
Jul 8, 9:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll	39 min
Jul 18, 9:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis	11 min
Sep 5, 9:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LCH	Cameron	18 min
Sep 11, 12:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Plaquemines	28 min
Sep 11, 7:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	26 min
Nov 5, 8:35 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Evangeline	55 min
Nov 5, 9:26 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides	15 min
Nov 5, 9:48 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia, Lafayette	12 min
Nov 5, 9:52 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia, Lafayette, Vermilion	8 min
Nov 5, 9:57 AM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LCH	Acadia, Lafayette, Saint Landry	33 min
Nov 5, 10:01 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Evangeline	29 min
Nov 13, 11:27 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Lafourche, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist	48 min
Nov 13, 12:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	East Feliciana, West Feliciana	43 min
Nov 18, 5:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	34 min
Nov 18, 5:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Vernon	15 min
Nov 18, 11:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Avoyelles	22 min
Nov 19, 12:00 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Avoyelles	15 min
Dec 9, 2:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint James, Saint John the Baptist	40 min
Dec 10, 5:01 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Saint Helena	29 min
Dec 26, 5:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Natchitoches, Sabine	36 min
Dec 26, 7:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Bienville, Jackson, Lincoln	48 min
Dec 26, 8:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LCH	Rapides, Vernon	26 min
Dec 26, 8:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LCH	Rapides	18 min
Dec 26, 8:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LCH	Rapides	32 min
Dec 26, 9:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides	24 min
Dec 27, 7:26 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	34 min
Dec 28, 6:57 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, West Feliciana	33 min
Dec 28, 7:17 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard	28 min
Dec 28, 8:04 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides	26 min
Dec 28, 8:07 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Beauregard	38 min
Dec 28, 2:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Grant, Winn	28 min
Dec 28, 2:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caldwell	29 min
Dec 28, 2:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Caldwell, LaSalle	24 min
Dec 28, 2:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Catahoula, Franklin	64 min
Dec 28, 3:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LCH	Vernon	31 min
Dec 28, 3:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	LCH	Cameron	49 min
Dec 28, 3:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	East Feliciana, Saint Helena	46 min
Dec 28, 3:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Rapides, Vernon	35 min
Dec 28, 3:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Franklin, Madison, Richland	34 min
Dec 28, 4:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Madison, Morehouse, Richland, West Carroll	55 min
Dec 28, 4:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	LCH	Cameron	40 min
Dec 28, 4:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Helena	48 min
Dec 28, 4:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll, Madison	60 min
Dec 28, 4:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	East Carroll	63 min
Dec 28, 5:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LCH	Avoyelles, Evangeline, Saint Landry	35 min
Dec 28, 5:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	LCH	Cameron	34 min
Dec 28, 5:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana	39 min
Dec 28, 6:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LCH	Acadia, Vermilion	33 min
Dec 28, 6:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	East Feliciana, Saint Helena, Tangipahoa, Washington	51 min
Dec 28, 6:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	East Baton Rouge, Livingston	11 min
Dec 28, 7:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa, Washington	46 min
Dec 28, 7:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Washington	17 min
Dec 28, 8:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	29 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

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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.