Louisiana

Storm History: LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

345 episodes, 415 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in LaSalle 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
415
Deaths
3
Injuries
47
Damage
$39 million
Episodes
345

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
Hail8200$365,000
Tornado75343$38 million
Heat6100
Thunderstorm Wind5700$62,000
Drought4100
Flash Flood2800
Excessive Heat2400
Winter Weather1300
Tropical Storm1102$510,000
Winter Storm700
Cold/Wind Chill600$75,000
Ice Storm200
Hurricane (Typhoon)200
Strong Wind202$500
High Wind100
Lightning100
Heavy Snow100
Flood100

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 LaSalle Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in LaSalle ParishEvery warning in LaSalle 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.