Louisiana

Storm History: Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

619 episodes, 986 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Calcasieu 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
986
Deaths
8
Injuries
58
Damage
$754 million
Episodes
619

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
Tornado338632$608 million
Hail23700$665,000
Thunderstorm Wind225019$4.5 million
Flash Flood13901$53 million
Flood2000$61 million
Lightning1026$1.8 million
Heavy Rain400$5,000
Funnel Cloud400
Heat200
Drought200
Blizzard200
Tropical Storm100$10,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)100$25 million
Storm Surge/Tide100

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 Calcasieu Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Calcasieu ParishEvery warning in Calcasieu 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.