Louisiana

Storm History: Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana

248 episodes, 297 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pointe Coupee 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
297
Deaths
4
Injuries
33
Damage
$92 million
Episodes
248

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
Tornado79231$20 million
Thunderstorm Wind7100$325,000
Hail4600$51,000
Flash Flood2500$580,000
Excessive Heat2400
Drought1500$29 million
Hurricane (Typhoon)500$19 million
Flood400$503,000
Tropical Storm401$16 million
Heavy Snow400
Ice Storm400
Winter Weather400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill421
Cold/Wind Chill300$7.2 million
Winter Storm200
Lightning100$2,000
Tropical Depression100
Sleet100

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 Pointe Coupee Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Pointe Coupee ParishEvery warning in Pointe Coupee 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.