Hail, St. Mary
- When
- June 23, 8:25 AM CST
- Where
- St. Mary County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 29.700, -91.200
Tornadoes and Hail in Louisiana, June 23, 1981
2 hail, 2 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- $280
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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 hail, 2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Cameron
- When
- June 23, 9:45 AM CST
- Where
- Cameron County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 7 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 29.770, -92.980
Hail, Lafayette
- When
- June 23, 11:25 AM CST
- Where
- Lafayette County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 30.220, -92.020
Tornado, Tensas
- When
- June 23, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Tensas County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 32.080, -91.250
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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 and Hail in Minnesota, June 23, 1981
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 23, 1981
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Dakota, June 23, 1981
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, June 23, 1981
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in New Mexico, June 23, 1981
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 23, 1981
- Damaging Winds in Texas, June 23, 1981
- Damaging Winds in Colorado, June 23, 1981
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 23, 1981
- Hail in Mississippi, June 23, 1981
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 23, 1981
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: 10043314, 10043315, 10043316, 10043317.