Louisiana

Storm History: Grant Parish, Louisiana

399 episodes, 515 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Grant 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
515
Deaths
6
Injuries
22
Damage
$12 million
Episodes
399

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
Tornado10309$10 million
Hail10201$38,000
Thunderstorm Wind8105$450,000
Heat6210
Flash Flood5900$270,000
Drought4000
Excessive Heat2300
Winter Weather1300
Winter Storm700
Cold/Wind Chill600$75,000
Tropical Storm513$1.0 million
Lightning333$180,000
Flood301
Ice Storm200
High Wind210
Hurricane (Typhoon)200
Heavy Snow100
Strong Wind100$500

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 Grant Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Grant ParishEvery warning in Grant 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.