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Tornado Watches in Louisiana, 2021
21 tornado watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 21
- Busiest month
- March6 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 17, 20214 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 8:43 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Jackson and 8 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 17, 11:53 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 17, 12:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bienville, Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 17, 2:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville and 19 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 27, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Lincoln and 5 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 27, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | East Carroll, Morehouse, West Carroll | 7 hr |
| Apr 7, 12:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, De Soto and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 10, 12:16 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, East Baton Rouge and 19 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 23, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Caldwell and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 23, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Catahoula, Concordia, East Baton Rouge and 16 more | 8 hr |
| May 2, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | East Carroll, Madison, Tensas, West Carroll | 5 hr |
| May 4, 10:52 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo and 31 more | 7 hr |
| May 4, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | East Baton Rouge, Livingston, Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington, West Baton Rouge | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 6:07 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa and 1 more | 13 hr |
| Aug 29, 6:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington | 11 hr |
| Oct 10, 11:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bossier, Caddo, De Soto | 5 hr |
| Oct 27, 7:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 13 more | 9 hr |
| Oct 27, 10:08 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, De Soto and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 27, 1:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, Catahoula, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana and 18 more | 8 hr |
| Dec 10, 10:44 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, Jackson, Lincoln and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 29, 12:05 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Claiborne, East Carroll, Lincoln, Morehouse, Ouachita, Union and 1 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lincoln Parish8
- Bienville Parish7
- Bossier Parish7
- Caddo Parish7
- Claiborne Parish7
- De Soto Parish7
- Red River Parish7
- Union Parish7
- Saint Tammany Parish7
- Tangipahoa Parish7
- Washington Parish7
- Jackson Parish6
- Natchitoches Parish6
- Ouachita Parish6
- Sabine Parish6
- Webster Parish6
- Winn Parish6
- Allen Parish6
- Avoyelles Parish6
- Evangeline Parish6
- Rapides Parish6
- Saint Landry Parish6
- Grant Parish6
- LaSalle Parish6
- Morehouse Parish6
- West Carroll Parish6
- Beauregard Parish5
- Vernon Parish5
- Caldwell Parish5
- East Carroll Parish5
- East Baton Rouge Parish5
- East Feliciana Parish5
- Livingston Parish5
- Pointe Coupee Parish5
- Saint Helena Parish5
- West Baton Rouge Parish5
- West Feliciana Parish5
- Acadia Parish4
- Jefferson Davis Parish4
- Catahoula Parish4
24 more counties
- Concordia Parish4
- Tensas Parish4
- Orleans Parish4
- Plaquemines Parish4
- Saint Bernard Parish4
- Calcasieu Parish3
- Cameron Parish3
- Lafayette Parish3
- Madison Parish3
- Ascension Parish3
- Assumption Parish3
- Iberia Parish3
- Iberville Parish3
- Jefferson Parish3
- Saint James Parish3
- Saint John the Baptist Parish3
- Saint Martin Parish3
- Vermilion Parish2
- Franklin Parish2
- Richland Parish2
- Lafourche Parish2
- Saint Charles Parish2
- St. Mary Parish2
- Terrebonne Parish2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.