Louisiana

Storm History: Saint Helena Parish, Louisiana

149 episodes, 173 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Saint Helena 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
173
Deaths
4
Injuries
34
Damage
$135 million
Episodes
149

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
Tornado51434$49 million
Thunderstorm Wind3100$124,000
Hail2500$39,000
Excessive Heat2300
Drought1000$17 million
Flash Flood700$628,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)500$68 million
Tropical Storm400$505,000
Heavy Snow400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Cold/Wind Chill200
Winter Storm200
Winter Weather200
Flood100
Funnel Cloud100
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 Saint Helena Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Saint Helena ParishEvery warning in Saint Helena 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.