Louisiana

Storm History: Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana

236 episodes, 285 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jefferson Davis 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
285
Deaths
1
Injuries
38
Damage
$117 million
Episodes
236

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
Tornado124029$48 million
Thunderstorm Wind7806$2.9 million
Hail3512$13,000
Flash Flood2800$15 million
Lightning801$495,000
Flood600$50 million
Heat200
Drought200
Blizzard200

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 Jefferson Davis Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Jefferson Davis ParishEvery warning in Jefferson Davis 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.