Tornado, Tensas
- When
- May 18, 5:42 PM CST
- Where
- Tensas County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 9 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 32.050, -91.270
Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, May 18, 1983
6 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
- $1.0 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 9
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
6 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Madison
- When
- May 18, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Madison County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 32.350, -91.030
Tornado, Tensas
- When
- May 18, 6:26 PM CST
- Where
- Tensas County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 31.920, -91.250
Thunderstorm Wind, Richland
- When
- May 18, 6:50 PM CST
- Where
- Richland County
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Coordinates
- 32.470, -91.630
Thunderstorm Wind, East Carroll
- When
- May 18, 6:50 PM CST
- Where
- East Carroll County
- Coordinates
- 32.720, -91.250
Thunderstorm Wind, West Carroll
- When
- May 18, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- West Carroll County
- Coordinates
- 32.730, -91.400
Tornado, Caldwell
- When
- May 18, 7:50 PM CST
- Where
- Caldwell County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 32.050, -92.080
Tornado, Franklin
- When
- May 18, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Franklin County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 32.280, -91.730
Tornado, Madison
- When
- May 18, 8:40 PM CST
- Where
- Madison County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 5 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 32.330, -91.200
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.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 18, 1983
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, May 18, 1983
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 18, 1983
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 18, 1983
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 18, 1983
- Hail in Oklahoma, May 18, 1983
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, May 18, 1983
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, May 18, 1983
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, May 18, 1983
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: 10045120, 10045121, 10045122, 10045123, 10045124, 10045125, 10045126, 10045127, 10045128.