2 heat, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
A woman working as a seamstress in her apartment in Bossier City, LA, was found dead. The death was determined by the county coroner as heat related.
A man collapsed from a heat stroke while cutting hay and fertilising in his field. At the time of his death his body temperature had elevated to 101 degrees.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heat, Bossier | 1998-05-18 | 36 | Female | Permanent Home | Direct |
| Heat, Bossier | 1998-05-18 | 68 | Male | Outside/Open Areas | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Louisiana in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, May 1998
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5640396, 5640397.