Louisiana

Storm History: Saint John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana

170 episodes, 194 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Saint John the Baptist 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
194
Deaths
12
Injuries
138
Damage
$992 million
Episodes
170

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
Tornado47283$61 million
Thunderstorm Wind3400$228,000
Excessive Heat2400
Hurricane (Typhoon)1620$924 million
Tropical Storm1300$510,000
Flash Flood1200$342,000
Drought1200$1.5 million
Hail700
Storm Surge/Tide600$15,000
Flood500$2,000
Heavy Snow300
Cold/Wind Chill200
Coastal Flood200
Winter Weather200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
High Wind100
Lightning110
Winter Storm100
Tropical Depression100
Ice Storm100
Sleet100
Dense Fog1755$4.0 million

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 John the Baptist Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Saint John the Baptist ParishEvery warning in Saint John the Baptist 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.