Louisiana

Storms in Louisiana in 2024

1,311 events in 142 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Louisiana in 2024, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

Louisiana in 2024 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Louisiana

The year

Events
1,311
Deaths
8
Injuries
18
Damage
$231 million
Episodes
142

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.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Thunderstorm Wind42520$1.2 million
Flash Flood24400$1.6 million
Hail12200$947,000
Heat12010
Tornado108412$9.8 million
Excessive Heat6800
Drought4500
Winter Weather4300
Storm Surge/Tide3200$30,000
Tropical Storm3200$2,000
Cold/Wind Chill1710
Winter Storm1400
Astronomical Low Tide800
Flood700
Coastal Flood700
Hurricane (Typhoon)706$218 million
Lightning500
Heavy Rain400
Funnel Cloud300

Every episode, month by month

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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 2026-09-24.