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Tornado Watches in Louisiana, 1997

49 tornado watches in 1997. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.

Tornado Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches: 49
Busiest month: April11 tornado watches
Busiest day: April 5, 19974 tornado watches

Over time

By month

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, 3:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles and 2 more	6 hr
Jan 15, 5:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Saint Bernard	6 hr
Jan 23, 4:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Beauregard, Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Rapides, Sabine and 2 more	6 hr
Jan 24, 4:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ascension, Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans and 10 more	6 hr
Jan 24, 9:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville and 15 more	6 hr
Feb 12, 9:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Assumption, Iberia, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines and 6 more	6 hr
Feb 20, 7:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo and 23 more	6 hr
Feb 20, 11:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Caldwell and 32 more	5 hr
Feb 26, 2:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bienville, Bossier, Caldwell, Claiborne, De Soto, East Carroll and 11 more	5 hr
Feb 26, 8:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Tensas, West Carroll	6 hr
Feb 27, 5:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 15 more	5 hr
Mar 1, 5:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, East Carroll, Lincoln, Morehouse and 4 more	4 hr
Mar 2, 9:45 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Bienville, Calcasieu, Cameron and 15 more	6 hr
Mar 2, 1:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Avoyelles, Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, East Feliciana and 11 more	6 hr
Mar 2, 4:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allen, Avoyelles, Bienville, Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia and 20 more	6 hr
Apr 4, 2:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	De Soto	6 hr
Apr 4, 4:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Catahoula, Claiborne and 20 more	6 hr
Apr 4, 10:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto and 10 more	6 hr
Apr 5, 2:30 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Calcasieu and 41 more	7 hr
Apr 5, 3:15 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Claiborne, Morehouse, Union	6 hr
Apr 5, 9:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Jefferson, Lafourche and 12 more	6 hr
Apr 22, 1:00 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Natchitoches and 3 more	5 hr
Apr 22, 8:45 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, LaSalle and 6 more	6 hr
Apr 26, 11:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard and 30 more	6 hr
Apr 27, 4:15 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana and 24 more	6 hr
Apr 27, 10:00 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Jefferson and 15 more	6 hr
May 2, 12:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Madison	7 hr
May 2, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Catahoula, Claiborne and 19 more	7 hr
May 2, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Madison, Tensas	6 hr
May 27, 1:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Jackson and 6 more	6 hr
May 27, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, De Soto and 13 more	6 hr
May 27, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Caldwell, Catahoula, East Carroll, Franklin, Grant, LaSalle and 4 more	5 hr
Jun 13, 8:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Avoyelles, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Catahoula and 19 more	6 hr
Jun 16, 11:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Red River and 1 more	7 hr
Jun 17, 6:30 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry and 1 more	6 hr
Jul 18, 9:00 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Tammany	12 hr
Oct 23, 2:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis	6 hr
Oct 23, 2:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Caddo	5 hr
Oct 23, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline and 4 more	6 hr
Oct 24, 12:30 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard and 33 more	7 hr
Oct 25, 12:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Caddo	7 hr
Oct 25, 2:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Catahoula, Claiborne and 19 more	6 hr
Oct 25, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, Saint Helena, Saint John the Baptist and 4 more	5 hr
Oct 25, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 8 more	6 hr
Oct 25, 9:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bienville, Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin and 15 more	6 hr
Oct 26, 12:00 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Avoyelles, Calcasieu, Catahoula and 21 more	6 hr
Nov 21, 11:15 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Ascension, Assumption, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia and 23 more	6 hr
Nov 28, 3:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Beauregard, Calcasieu, Natchitoches, Sabine, Vernon	5 hr
Nov 28, 8:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard and 30 more	6 hr

By county

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

24 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record The radar archive 1996 1998

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.