Louisiana

Storm History: Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

399 episodes, 613 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Tangipahoa 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
613
Deaths
9
Injuries
35
Damage
$1.2 billion
Episodes
399

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
Tornado185425$1.1 billion
Thunderstorm Wind14306$649,000
Hail9522$509,000
Excessive Heat7500
Flash Flood5310$2.2 million
Drought1900
Lightning1402$157,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700
Hurricane (Typhoon)620$102 million
Winter Weather400
Heavy Snow400
Flood300
Tropical Storm200$510,000
Funnel Cloud100
Sleet100
Storm Surge/Tide100

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 Tangipahoa Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Tangipahoa ParishEvery warning in Tangipahoa 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.