Louisiana

Storm History: Jackson Parish, Louisiana

400 episodes, 519 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jackson 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
519
Deaths
7
Injuries
56
Damage
$7.5 million
Episodes
400

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
Tornado138552$6.0 million
Hail10900$2,000
Thunderstorm Wind7404$303,000
Heat6400
Drought4400
Flash Flood2500$830,000
Excessive Heat2400
Winter Weather900
Winter Storm900
Cold/Wind Chill610$100,000
Ice Storm500
Tropical Storm300$100,000
Funnel Cloud200
Strong Wind200$6,000
Freezing Fog100
Lightning100$155,000
High Wind100
Heavy Snow100
Hurricane (Typhoon)110

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 Jackson Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Jackson ParishEvery warning in Jackson 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.