Louisiana

Storm History: Claiborne Parish, Louisiana

494 episodes, 599 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Claiborne 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
599
Deaths
7
Injuries
35
Damage
$20 million
Episodes
494

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
Hail14902$44,000
Tornado133522$13 million
Thunderstorm Wind102111$6.0 million
Heat6200
Drought4900
Flash Flood3200$75,000
Excessive Heat2510
Winter Weather1300
Winter Storm1100
Ice Storm600
Cold/Wind Chill600$150,000
Lightning300$72,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)200
Freezing Fog100
Flood100
High Wind100$60,000
Strong Wind100$10,000
Tropical Storm100$100,000
Heavy Snow100

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 Claiborne Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Claiborne ParishEvery warning in Claiborne 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.