Louisiana

Storm History: Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana

316 episodes, 457 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Saint Landry 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
457
Deaths
11
Injuries
121
Damage
$446 million
Episodes
316

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
Tornado176790$71 million
Hail9810$874,000
Thunderstorm Wind8605$1.1 million
Flash Flood4400$32 million
Hurricane (Typhoon)900$282 million
Flood800$3.0 million
Ice Storm700$250,000
Drought500$56 million
High Wind420$72,000
Winter Weather400
Winter Storm400
Lightning3020$125,000
Heat300
Strong Wind100$10,000
Dense Fog106$20,000
Cold/Wind Chill100
Tropical Storm100$5,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill110
Blizzard100

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 Landry Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Saint Landry ParishEvery warning in Saint Landry 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.