Louisiana

Storm History: Allen Parish, Louisiana

262 episodes, 338 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Allen Parish, Louisiana: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
338
Deaths
3
Injuries
4
Damage
$533 million
Episodes
262

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.

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Every year

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.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado10004$1.9 million
Thunderstorm Wind7700$1.3 million
Hail7600$117,000
Flash Flood3400$289,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)1030$522 million
Drought800$2.9 million
Ice Storm700$125,000
Flood700$3.9 million
Winter Weather600
Winter Storm400
Heat300
Cold/Wind Chill200$75,000
Heavy Rain100$10,000
High Wind100$25,000
Excessive Heat100
Blizzard100

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Allen Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Allen ParishEvery warning in Allen Parish since 1986Every county in Louisiana

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.