Louisiana

Storm History: Assumption Parish, Louisiana

138 episodes, 148 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Assumption 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
148
Deaths
0
Injuries
10
Damage
$83 million
Episodes
138

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
Tornado37010$3.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind2300$559,000
Excessive Heat2200
Hail1700$1.0 million
Drought1300$25 million
Flash Flood1000$978,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)800$41 million
Tropical Storm500$11 million
Heavy Snow300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Cold/Wind Chill200
High Wind100
Storm Surge/Tide100
Winter Storm100
Tropical Depression100
Winter Weather100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Assumption Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Assumption ParishEvery warning in Assumption 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.