Damaging Wind in Louisiana, June 17, 1997

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$78,000

Crop damage

None recorded

Events

1

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.

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:39 UTC.

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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.

• Damaging Winds and Heavy Rain in Texas, June 17, 19972 deaths · 2 injured · $190,000 · 58 kt wind · 7 events
• Damaging Wind in Mississippi, June 17, 19971 death · $10,000 · 1 event
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 17, 19978 injured · $390,000 · 65 kt wind · 11 events
• Tornado in Indiana, June 17, 1997$500,000 · F1 · 1 event
• Tornado in Kentucky, June 17, 19972 injured · $200,000 · F1 · 1 event
• Lightning Strike in Idaho, June 17, 1997$1.0 million · 1 event
• Lightning Strikes in North Carolina, June 17, 1997$542,000 · 3 events
• Tornado in Kentucky, June 17, 1997$100,000 · F1 · 1 event
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 17, 1997$64,000 · 1.75 in hail · 24 events
• Flash Flood in Louisiana, June 17, 1997$150,000 · 1 event
• Tornado in Tennessee, June 17, 1997$130,000 · F0 · 1 event
• Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 17, 1997$84,000 · 5 events

Every storm in Louisiana in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, June 1997

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: 5604627.