Tropical Storm in Louisiana

Events

531

Deaths

6

Injuries

29

Damage

$1.4 billion

• Hurricane and Tropical Storm in Louisiana, August 26 to 27, 202023 deaths · $11 billion · 18 eventsA tropical wave emerged off of Africa during August 16 and then developed into a depression by the 20th. The system gradually became better organized as it passed across the Greater Antilles. It entered the Gulf of Mexico and became a hurricane on the 25th.
• Hurricane and Tornadoes in Louisiana, September 1 to 3, 20086 deaths · 2 injured · $951 million · EF2 · 32 eventsHurricane Gustav caused wind damage, flash flooding, and several tornadoes across southwest Louisiana. Hustav made landfall in Terrebonne Parish in the morning of September 2nd as a category 2 hurricane with sustained winds of 110 mph.
• Hurricane and Tropical Storm in Louisiana, October 9 to 10, 20204 deaths · $3.3 billion · 18 eventsA tropical wave moved into the Caribbean in early October and became a tropical depression by the 5th. The system quickly gained strength and obtained category 4 status before shear weakened it back to a category 2.
• Tornado and Tropical Storm in Louisiana, September 10 to 12, 19981 death · 6 injured · $32 million · F2 · 20 eventsA tropical depression in the western Gulf of Mexico was classified as Tropical Storm Frances during the afternoon of September 9th.
• Hurricane and Tropical Storm in Louisiana, October 28, 20201 death · 1 injured · $386 million · 27 eventsA tropical depression formed in the northwestern Caribbean on the afternoon of October 24th. 9 hours later, it became the twenty-seventh named storm and eleventh hurricane of the exceptionally active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season.
• Tropical Storm and Flash Flooding in Louisiana, September 1 to 3, 20081 death · 7 injured · $14 million · 30 eventsHurricane Gustav moved northwestward into the southeast Louisiana coast during the early morning hours of September 1st. The storm continued a steady northwestward motion into east central Louisiana and northwest Louisiana during the evening hours of September 1st.
• Hurricane and Tornadoes in Louisiana, September 12 to 15, 2008$659 million · EF2 · 21 eventsHurricane Ike caused wind damage, storm surge flooding, and tornadoes across southwest Louisiana. Ike made landfall near Galveston, TX early in the morning on September 13th as a strong category 2 hurricane.
• Hurricane and Tropical Storm in Louisiana, September 11 to 12, 20246 injured · $198 million · 53 eventsHurricane Francine formed as a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico on September 9, 2024, and intensified into a Category 2 hurricane before making landfall near Houma, Louisiana, on the morning of September 11.
• Tornadoes and Tropical Storm in Louisiana, September 1 to 3, 2008$386 million · EF1 · 25 eventsHurricane Gustav was the 2nd major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season. It took shape as a tropical depression on the morning of August 25th just southeast of Haiti, and rapidly strengthened to hurricane status by the morning of August 26th.
• Tornadoes and Tropical Storm in Louisiana, June 30, 20034 injured · $41 million · F1 · 38 eventsTropical Storm Bill developed in the southern Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, June 29, 2003, then moved steadily northward toward the Louisiana coast.
• Tropical Storm and Storm Surge in Louisiana, October 8 to 10, 20205 injured · $67 million · 33 eventsDelta first developed into a tropical depression in the Caribbean just south of Jamaica on the afternoon of October 4th. As it tracked across the western Caribbean, it rapidly intensified into a Category 4 hurricane.
• Tornado and Tropical Storm in Louisiana, September 25 to 27, 2002$109 million · F1 · 24 eventsTropical Storm Isidore moved steadily northward across the central Gulf of Mexico on September 24 and September 25, 2002 before moving ashore near Grand Isle early on the morning on Thursday, September 26, 2002.
• Tropical Storm and Storm Surge in Louisiana, September 11 to 14, 2008$194 million · 35 eventsHurricane Ike emerged into the southeast Gulf of Mexico as a category 1 hurricane on September 9th after earlier being a major hurricane as it moved across the Caribbean.
• Tornadoes and Tropical Storm in Louisiana, September 13, 20086 injured · $4.5 million · EF0 · 33 eventsHurricane Ike came onshore across extreme southeast Texas during the late night hours of September 12th and the pre-dawn hours of September 13th.
• Hurricane and Tropical Storm in Louisiana, July 13 to 15, 2019$51 million · 27 eventsA mesoscale convective vortex interacted with a weak cold front over the the southeast states and northeast Gulf of Mexico. The surface low that developed moved southwest across the gulf then northwest into the south central Louisiana coast.
• Tropical Storm in Louisiana, September 23 to 24, 2005$48 million · 26 eventsA tropical depression moving west through the Turks and Caicos Islands developed into Tropical Storm Rita on the afternoon of September 18th.
• Tropical Storm in Louisiana, September 9 to 11, 19983 injured · $21 million · 9 eventsTropical Storm Frances was the third tropical system to affect southwest Louisiana in three weeks, and was by far the worst. Tides at Cameron were the highest since Hurricane Carla in 1961.
• Hurricane and Tropical Storm in Louisiana, August 27, 20201 death · 1 injured · 19 eventsMajor Hurricane Laura tracked north northwest across the Central and Northern Gulf of Mexico from the Central Carribean Sea near Cuba, making landfall in Southwest Louisiana near Cameron around 1 am on August 27th as a strong Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds…
• Tropical Storm in Louisiana, November 9 to 10, 20091 death · 14 eventsIda developed from a tropical wave moving over the southwestern Caribbean Sea that spawned an area of low pressure on November 2nd. This low developed into a tropical depression on November 4th and then strengthened into a tropical storm a little later that same day.
• Hurricane and Tropical Storm in Louisiana, September 11 to 12, 2024$20 million · 8 eventsFrancine originated from a tropical wave that emerged off the West coast of Africa on August 28th. The wave traversed the tropical Atlantic Ocean with minimal organization, reaching the Leeward Islands by September 1st.
• Tropical Storm and Flash Flooding in Louisiana, June 5 to 8, 2001$12 million · 9 eventsTropical Storm Allison caused minor problems along coastal sections of southwest Louisiana, but eventually resulted in catstrophic flood losses further inland.
• Tropical Storm in Louisiana, September 25 to 26, 2002$3.8 million · 4 eventsTropical Storm Isidore stayed well east of the region, but did minor damage along coastal areas of southwest Louisiana. In Cameron Parish, tides ran around 2 feet above normal, resulting in minor beach erosion between Johnson Bayou and Holly Beach.
• Tropical Storm in Louisiana, August 29, 2021$2.8 million · 5 eventsThe main impacts of Hurricane Ida were felt over Southeast Louisiana, however tropical storm conditions still occurred in South Central Louisiana.
• Hurricane and Tornado in Louisiana, September 13, 2007$725,000 · EF1 · 8 eventsHurricane Humberto made landfall in southeast Texas, and moved into southwest Louisiana the morning of 9/13/07. Humberto was weakening to a tropical storm as it moved northeast across southwest Louisiana.
• Tropical Storm and Flash Flood in Louisiana, October 9 to 10, 2020$1.1 million · 9 eventsHurricane Delta made landfall along the southwest Louisiana Gulf Coast around 5:00 p.m. CDT on October 9th and moved to the northeast across portions of central and northeast Louisiana.

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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.