Storm History: Vermilion Parish, Louisiana

249 episodes, 303 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Vermilion 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: 303
Deaths: 4
Injuries: 85
Damage: $163 million
Episodes: 249

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 event	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Tornado	103	4	80	$37 million
Hail	60	0	4	$43,000
Thunderstorm Wind	58	0	1	$797,000
Flash Flood	38	0	0	$21 million
Astronomical Low Tide	21	0	0
Lightning	5	0	0	$565,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)	4	0	0	$525,000
Flood	3	0	0	$100 million
Funnel Cloud	3	0	0
Tropical Storm	2	0	0	$3.0 million
Heat	2	0	0
Blizzard	2	0	0
Drought	1	0	0
Storm Surge/Tide	1	0	0

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 Vermilion Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Tornadoes in Vermilion Parish Every warning in Vermilion Parish since 1986 Every 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.