Louisiana

Storm History: Caldwell Parish, Louisiana

348 episodes, 421 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Caldwell 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
421
Deaths
2
Injuries
11
Damage
$15 million
Episodes
348

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
Hail9300$14,000
Tornado90211$7.8 million
Heat6300
Thunderstorm Wind4700$81,000
Drought4400
Excessive Heat2500
Flash Flood1500$4.3 million
Winter Weather1300
Tropical Storm700$100,000
Winter Storm700
Cold/Wind Chill600$100,000
Flood400$3.0 million
Ice Storm300
High Wind100
Heavy Snow100
Strong Wind100$500
Hurricane (Typhoon)100

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 Caldwell Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Caldwell ParishEvery warning in Caldwell 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.