Storm History: Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

300 episodes, 391 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lafayette 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: 391
Deaths: 8
Injuries: 66
Damage: $1.9 billion
Episodes: 300

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.

Open the live radar over Lafayette Parish

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 event	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Tornado	136	3	41	$229 million
Hail	76	0	0	$314,000
Thunderstorm Wind	66	0	1	$6.1 million
Flash Flood	57	0	0	$406 million
Hurricane (Typhoon)	8	1	0	$581 million
Flood	7	0	0	$700 million
Lightning	6	0	2	$225,000
Ice Storm	6	2	0	$510,000
Drought	5	0	0	$13 million
Tropical Storm	4	0	0	$6.5 million
Winter Weather	4	0	0
Winter Storm	4	0	0
Heat	3	0	0
High Wind	2	0	0	$45,000
Funnel Cloud	2	0	0
Dense Fog	1	1	22	$100,000
Strong Wind	1	0	0	$50,000
Cold/Wind Chill	1	0	0	$10,000
Excessive Heat	1	1	0
Blizzard	1	0	0

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 Lafayette Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

Tornadoes in Lafayette Parish Every warning in Lafayette Parish since 1986 Every 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.