Louisiana

Storm History: Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana

621 episodes, 903 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Natchitoches 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
903
Deaths
5
Injuries
75
Damage
$36 million
Episodes
621

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 Natchitoches 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 eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado259163$25 million
Hail22000$183,000
Thunderstorm Wind13106$3.7 million
Flash Flood9312$215,000
Heat6520
Drought4900
Excessive Heat2300
Winter Weather1300
Flood710$3.0 million
Winter Storm700
High Wind600
Lightning600$263,000
Cold/Wind Chill600$250,000
Tropical Storm504$750,000
Wildfire400$2.6 million
Ice Storm300
Hurricane (Typhoon)300
Heavy Rain100
Strong Wind100$20,000
Heavy Snow100

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 Natchitoches Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Natchitoches ParishEvery warning in Natchitoches 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.