2 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a Zachary church school building. The resulting fire destroyed about 20,000 square feet of office and classroom space. Property damages were estimated to be around $1 million.
A north-south line of thunderstorms moving east about 20 mph blew seven mobile homes off their foundations and took off the roof of another mobile home about 8 miles southeast of Thibodaux about 0330 CST.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Louisiana in 1993Every state in 1993This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, April 1993
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: 10327838, 10328059.