Louisiana

Storm History: Cameron Parish, Louisiana

345 episodes, 529 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Cameron 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
529
Deaths
9
Injuries
57
Damage
$786 million
Episodes
345

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
Tornado146449$8.2 million
Astronomical Low Tide11300
Thunderstorm Wind8403$1.9 million
Hail7200$107,000
Flash Flood2900$456,000
Coastal Flood1700$145,000
Lightning1024$16,000
Ice Storm1000
Winter Weather800
Tropical Storm800$2,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)700$750 million
Funnel Cloud600
Flood300$25 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Winter Storm200
Seiche200$75,000
Heat200
Storm Surge/Tide200
Blizzard200
Heavy Rain100
Wildfire100
Rip Current131
Drought100

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 Cameron Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Cameron ParishEvery warning in Cameron 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.