Louisiana

Storm History: West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

149 episodes, 168 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in West Baton Rouge 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
168
Deaths
2
Injuries
9
Damage
$47 million
Episodes
149

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.

Open the live radar over West Baton Rouge Parish

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
Tornado4029$7.1 million
Hail3200$128,000
Excessive Heat2400
Thunderstorm Wind2200$115,000
Drought1000$3.8 million
Flash Flood900$535,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)600$19 million
Tropical Storm600$16 million
Heavy Snow400
Cold/Wind Chill300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Flood200$84,000
Winter Storm200
Winter Weather200
Heavy Rain100
Tropical Depression100
Sleet100

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 West Baton Rouge Parish, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in West Baton Rouge ParishEvery warning in West Baton Rouge 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.