Louisiana

Storm History: Red River Parish, Louisiana

410 episodes, 498 events since 1963

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Red River 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
498
Deaths
1
Injuries
2
Damage
$9.0 million
Episodes
410

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
Hail11300$60,000
Tornado10012$1.2 million
Thunderstorm Wind7100$6.1 million
Heat6500
Drought4600
Flash Flood3700$36,000
Excessive Heat2400
Winter Storm900
Winter Weather800
Cold/Wind Chill600$75,000
Ice Storm500
Flood500$1.0 million
Hurricane (Typhoon)200
Tropical Storm200$100,000
Freezing Fog100
High Wind100
Lightning100$15,000
Heavy Snow100
Wildfire100$400,000

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 Red River Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Red River ParishEvery warning in Red River 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.