Louisiana

Storm History: Bossier Parish, Louisiana

852 episodes, 1,334 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bossier 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
1,334
Deaths
49
Injuries
431
Damage
$384 million
Episodes
852

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
Hail41601$555,000
Tornado31627426$360 million
Thunderstorm Wind22510$1.5 million
Flash Flood13400$2.9 million
Heat73100
Drought5600
Excessive Heat35100
Flood2200$8.7 million
Winter Storm1200
Winter Weather1000
Lightning803$10 million
Strong Wind711$78,000
Ice Storm600
Cold/Wind Chill600$200,000
High Wind200$20,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)200
Freezing Fog100
Tropical Storm100$250,000
Heavy Snow100
Funnel Cloud100

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 Bossier Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Bossier ParishEvery warning in Bossier 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.