Louisiana

Storm History: Evangeline Parish, Louisiana

231 episodes, 276 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Evangeline 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
276
Deaths
5
Injuries
20
Damage
$309 million
Episodes
231

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
Tornado94212$22 million
Hail5802$303,000
Thunderstorm Wind5403$2.5 million
Flash Flood2500$15 million
Hurricane (Typhoon)923$250 million
Drought800$17 million
Ice Storm600$250,000
Winter Weather400
Winter Storm400
Heat300
High Wind200$75,000
Lightning200$125,000
Tropical Storm200$5,000
Flood100$1.0 million
Cold/Wind Chill100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill110
Coastal Flood100
Blizzard100

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 Evangeline Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Evangeline ParishEvery warning in Evangeline 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.