Cold in Louisiana, January 3, 2008

Name: Cold in Louisiana, January 3, 2008
Start: 2008-01-03T00:00
End: 2008-01-03T08:00
Location: Louisiana

January 3, 2008 · NWS LIX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Cold high pressure settled over the region with overnight lows falling below freezing temperatures.

The toll

Deaths: 2
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
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.

What happened

The episode as NWS LIX wrote it up.

Cold high pressure settled over the region with overnight lows falling below freezing temperatures.

Event by event

1 cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.

Cold/Wind Chill, Orleans

When: January 3, 12:00 AM CST to 8:00 AM CST
Where: Orleans forecast zone
Deaths: 2 direct, 0 indirect
Reported by: Newspaper

Two homeless people, a man and a woman, died during the early morning hours of January 4th due to hypothermia according to the Orleans Parish Coronors Office. The 48 year old woman was found dead around 0530 CST on a bench underneath the Crescent City Connection bridge. The 54 year old man was found dead a few hours later in the parking lot of an abandoned small shopping mall. Overnight lows in the area were in the upper 20s.

The people who died

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
Cold/Wind Chill, Orleans	2008-01-03	48	Female	Outside/Open Areas	Direct
Cold/Wind Chill, Orleans	2008-01-03	54	Male	Outside/Open Areas	Direct

What these are

Cold/Wind Chill: Cold or wind chill below warning criteria that caused deaths, injuries or damage.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Louisiana in 2008 Every state in 2008 This day in weather history Warnings in Louisiana, January 2008

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 78998.