Louisiana

Storm History: Ouachita Parish, Louisiana

649 episodes, 1,004 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Ouachita 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
1,004
Deaths
11
Injuries
26
Damage
$318 million
Episodes
649

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
Hail26513$1.3 million
Tornado242219$266 million
Thunderstorm Wind17113$4.9 million
Flash Flood11830$36 million
Heat6620
Drought4400
Excessive Heat2720
Winter Storm1100$250,000
Winter Weather1000
Tropical Storm1000$6.0 million
Flood1000$3.0 million
Lightning701$348,000
Ice Storm600$30,000
Cold/Wind Chill600$500,000
Strong Wind500$314,000
High Wind200
Freezing Fog100
Funnel Cloud100
Heavy Snow100
Hurricane (Typhoon)100

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 Ouachita Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Ouachita ParishEvery warning in Ouachita 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.