During the afternoon and evening, a cold front came through the area. It triggered many storms along it as it moved through.
Every event with a place to put it. 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 episode as NWS LIX wrote it up.
During the afternoon and evening, a cold front came through the area. It triggered many storms along it as it moved through. Ample instability and mid-level dry air aided the stronger storms in the complex to produce damaging winds before it pushed through the area.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees down between Grosse Tete and Maringouin.
Power line down on Sunset Drive.
Power lines down in White Castle, LA.
Small tree down on Highway 70.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Louisiana in 2023Every state in 2023This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, September 2023
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: 1142838, 1142839, 1142840, 1142841.