Louisiana

Storm History: Sabine Parish, Louisiana

510 episodes, 662 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Sabine 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
662
Deaths
15
Injuries
60
Damage
$25 million
Episodes
510

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
Hail16401$87,000
Tornado1591049$15 million
Thunderstorm Wind9738$5.2 million
Flash Flood6200$2.1 million
Heat6200
Drought4700
Excessive Heat2100
Winter Weather1300
Cold/Wind Chill620$75,000
Winter Storm600
Flood400$10,000
Lightning402$500
Tropical Storm400$2.1 million
High Wind300
Ice Storm200
Funnel Cloud200
Hurricane (Typhoon)200
Wildfire200
Strong Wind100$150,000
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 Sabine Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Sabine ParishEvery warning in Sabine 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.