Louisiana

Storm History: Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana

185 episodes, 295 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Saint Bernard 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
295
Deaths
147
Injuries
7
Damage
$10 billion
Episodes
185

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 Saint Bernard 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
Tornado5326$99 million
Excessive Heat4300
Hurricane (Typhoon)311400$4.2 billion
Tropical Storm2900$80,000
Thunderstorm Wind2600$108,000
Flash Flood2200$425,000
Hail2121$20,000
Drought1900
Storm Surge/Tide1500$6.0 billion
Cold/Wind Chill400
High Wind400$20,000
Flood400
Heavy Rain400
Funnel Cloud300
Lightning310$500
Heavy Snow320
Winter Weather300
Coastal Flood200
Winter Storm200
Tropical Depression200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200

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 Saint Bernard Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Saint Bernard ParishEvery warning in Saint Bernard 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.