Louisiana

Storm History: Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

202 episodes, 245 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lafourche 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
245
Deaths
27
Injuries
197
Damage
$14 million
Episodes
202

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
Tornado9423190$5.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind5613$853,000
Hail4812$59,000
Flash Flood2610$3.1 million
Funnel Cloud800
Lightning400$235,000
Flood300$40,000
Storm Surge/Tide300
Rip Current112
Heavy Rain100$25,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)100$4.5 million

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 Lafourche Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Lafourche ParishEvery warning in Lafourche 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.