Louisiana

Storms in Louisiana in 1954

11 events in 8 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Louisiana in 1954, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1955 the record holds tornadoes only.

Louisiana in 1954 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Louisiana

The year

Events
11
Deaths
2
Injuries
11
Damage
$428,000
Episodes
8

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado11211$428,000

Every episode, month by month

February 1954

April 1954

August 1954

More

Every year in LouisianaEvery state in 1954Tornadoes in Louisiana in 195419531955

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.