Tornado, St. John the Baptist
- When
- June 23, 11:00 AM CST
- Where
- St. John the Baptist County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 30.070, -90.480
Tornadoes in Louisiana, June 23, 1974
2 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
Event by event
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Avoyelles
- When
- June 23, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Avoyelles County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 30.950, -91.970
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes in Arizona, June 23, 1974
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 23, 1974
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Colorado, June 23, 1974
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 23, 1974
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 23, 1974
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, June 23, 1974
- Hail in Wyoming, June 23, 1974
- Damaging Wind in New Mexico, June 23, 1974
- Hail in Montana, June 23, 1974
More
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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. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10036147, 10036148.