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2013 tornadoes in Louisiana

36 tornadoes touched down in Louisiana in 2013, 10 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2012 2014 The whole country in 2013

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

EF065 to 85 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Every tornado in Louisiana in 2013

January 10 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
January 10	5:30 AM CST	EF1	Saint Martin Parish	2.1	50	$200,000
January 10	5:51 AM CST	EF1	Iberia Parish	5.5	50	$100,000
January 10	7:35 AM CST	EF0	Iberville Parish	0.3	100	$15,000

January 12 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 12	11:30 PM CST	EF1	De Soto Parish	7.1	300		2	$120,000

January 13 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 13	12:15 PM CST	EF1	Saint Martin Parish	0.4	25			$100,000
January 13	1:19 PM CST	EF0	East Baton Rouge Parish	12.5	40			$40,000

January 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 29	9:36 PM CST	EF2	West Carroll Parish	5.4	100			$250,000

February 18 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
February 18	2:38 PM CST	EF0	De Soto Parish	2.0	10
February 18	6:05 PM CST	EF0	Caddo Parish	0.0	25
February 18	6:08 PM CST	EF0	Caddo Parish	0.0	20

February 21 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
February 21	2:58 PM CST	EF1	Vernon Parish	2.4	50	$5,000
February 21	3:07 PM CST	EF1	Natchitoches Parish	0.0	30
February 21	5:12 PM CST	EF1	Concordia Parish	3.0	75	$75,000

February 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 24	8:30 PM CST	EF0	Lafourche Parish	1.9	25			$50,000

February 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 25	4:41 PM CST	EF1	Terrebonne Parish	0.9	30			$100,000

April 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 11	1:05 PM CDT	EF1	Saint Tammany Parish	8.8	120			$100,000

April 18 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 18	5:19 PM CDT	EF1	East Carroll Parish	2.9	75			$50,000
April 18	5:23 PM CDT	EF0	Madison Parish	0.4	50

April 24 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 24	9:55 AM CDT	EF0	Iberville Parish	0.4	75		$20,000
April 24	11:48 AM CDT	EF1	Jefferson Parish	0.9	50		$150,000
April 24	11:52 AM CDT	EF0	Jefferson Parish	2.2	75	2	$100,000

April 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 27	8:32 PM CDT	EF1	Bienville Parish	2.3	880

May 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 9	11:35 PM CDT	EF0	Beauregard Parish	1.0	20			$10,000

May 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 10	1:45 AM CDT	EF0	Cameron Parish	0.9	75			$25,000

May 16 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 16	2:39 PM CDT	EF1	Caddo Parish	5.2	1,400		1	$250,000
May 16	3:05 PM CDT	EF0	Caddo Parish	2.5	350

June 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 19	3:45 PM CDT	EF0	Jefferson Parish	0.3	60			$10,000

July 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 27	12:33 AM CDT	EF1	Red River Parish	10.0	1,760

October 31 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 31	9:46 AM CDT	EF1	Calcasieu Parish	7.1	150	$30,000
October 31	10:00 AM CDT	EF1	Beauregard Parish	7.9	150	$400,000
October 31	10:00 AM CDT	EF0	Beauregard Parish	2.5	75
October 31	10:14 AM CDT	EF0	Allen Parish	0.8	75
October 31	10:30 AM CDT	EF0	Calcasieu Parish	1.4	30	$10,000
October 31	11:21 AM CDT	EF0	Evangeline Parish	0.5	75	$3,000
October 31	11:41 AM CDT	EF0	Acadia Parish	0.5	70	$1,000

December 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 21	3:43 PM CST	EF1	Union Parish	0.8	75			$1,000

Nearby

Every tornado in Louisiana since 1950 Warnings in force in Louisiana The live radar over Louisiana

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.