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2019 tornadoes in Louisiana

90 tornadoes touched down in Louisiana in 2019, 176 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 4 people and injured 9.

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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 2019

January 19 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 19	9:22 AM CST	EF1	Tangipahoa Parish	1.1	50
January 19	9:44 AM CST	EF1	Washington Parish	3.0	75

March 9 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 9	10:45 AM CST	EF1	Caddo Parish	8.5	100	$125,000
March 9	11:13 AM CST	EF1	Bossier Parish	2.9	100	$25,000
March 9	11:24 AM CST	EF1	Webster Parish	0.8	75	$150,000

April 7 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 7	7:45 PM CDT	EF0	Ascension Parish	2.0	50	$50,000
April 7	8:04 PM CDT	EF1	Saint Helena Parish	1.5	75
April 7	8:19 PM CDT	EF0	Jefferson Parish	2.6	50

April 13 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 13	4:04 PM CDT	EF1	Tensas Parish	17.3	1,230	$70,000
April 13	4:13 PM CDT	EF1	Tensas Parish	5.0	950	$50,000
April 13	4:35 PM CDT	EF1	Madison Parish	1.0	840	$15,000
April 13	4:44 PM CDT	EF0	Madison Parish	2.8	50
April 13	7:09 PM CDT	EF0	Madison Parish	4.4	50	$5,000

April 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 24	11:51 PM CDT	EF1	Caddo Parish	1.0	100			$100,000

April 25 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 25	1:12 AM CDT	EF1	Bienville Parish	2.5	150			$25,000
April 25	1:25 AM CDT	EF1	Bienville Parish	1.0	200			$25,000
April 25	1:47 AM CDT	EF3	Lincoln Parish	11.2	1,000	2	2	$50 million
April 25	2:10 AM CDT	EF1	Union Parish	21.4	850			$5.0 million
April 25	2:44 AM CDT	EF2	Morehouse Parish to AR	16.0	2,000			$1.1 million
April 25	2:59 AM CDT	EF0	LaSalle Parish	8.8	700			$350,000
April 25	4:56 AM CDT	EF1	Beauregard Parish	3.2	500			$5,000

May 2 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 2	6:40 AM CDT	EF1	De Soto Parish	1.0	240			$10,000
May 2	7:08 AM CDT	EF1	De Soto Parish	0.2	330			$150,000

May 4 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 4	6:59 AM CDT	Unrated	Plaquemines Parish	3.3	25
May 4	10:56 AM CDT	EF0	Saint Tammany Parish	3.4	50
May 4	11:18 AM CDT	EF1	Saint Tammany Parish to MS	4.5	200

May 8 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 8	3:33 PM CDT	EF1	De Soto Parish	1.8	200	$20,000
May 8	3:44 PM CDT	EF1	De Soto Parish	13.5	500	$200,000
May 8	3:53 PM CDT	EF1	De Soto Parish	3.9	80	$10,000
May 8	5:15 PM CDT	EF1	Natchitoches Parish	3.0	250
May 8	5:22 PM CDT	EF1	Winn Parish	2.9	250
May 8	5:35 PM CDT	EF1	Jackson Parish	0.4	70
May 8	5:35 PM CDT	EF1	Jackson Parish	7.4	100	$60,000
May 8	5:42 PM CDT	EF1	Jackson Parish	4.0	350	$1.0 million
May 8	5:47 PM CDT	EF1	Lincoln Parish	5.4	80	$175,000
May 8	6:36 PM CDT	EF1	Richland Parish	8.9	200	$180,000
May 8	6:36 PM CDT	EF1	Ouachita Parish	4.3	75
May 8	6:52 PM CDT	EF1	Richland Parish	7.9	300	$50,000

May 19 11 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 19	2:02 AM CDT	EF0	Natchitoches Parish	1.2	80
May 19	2:46 AM CDT	EF1	Richland Parish	18.7	700	$100,000
May 19	3:14 AM CDT	EF1	Beauregard Parish	2.9	600	$10,000
May 19	3:19 AM CDT	EF1	Beauregard Parish	2.6	800	$75,000
May 19	3:26 AM CDT	EF1	Beauregard Parish	2.7	250	$7,000
May 19	4:40 AM CDT	EF1	Allen Parish	2.3	50	$7,000
May 19	5:03 AM CDT	EF1	Allen Parish	1.3	900	$50,000
May 19	5:42 AM CDT	EF0	Evangeline Parish	0.2	50	$5,000
May 19	5:47 AM CDT	EF1	Evangeline Parish	9.1	400	$150,000
May 19	5:50 AM CDT	EF1	Evangeline Parish	2.5	600	$100,000
May 19	8:30 AM CDT	EF0	Saint Helena Parish	0.2	30

June 5 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 5	9:40 PM CDT	EF0	Cameron Parish	0.2	50			$5,000
June 5	12:34 AM CDT	EF1	Jefferson Davis Parish	1.6	100			$10,000

June 6 20 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
June 6	1:06 AM CDT	EF1	Jefferson Davis Parish	0.5	311		$25,000
June 6	1:54 AM CDT	EF0	Acadia Parish	0.4	115		$1,000
June 6	2:22 AM CDT	EF1	Jefferson Davis Parish	0.8	100		$30,000
June 6	2:30 AM CDT	EF1	Acadia Parish	0.3	202		$1,000
June 6	3:43 AM CDT	EF1	Saint Landry Parish	1.3	186		$75,000
June 6	4:49 AM CDT	EF1	Saint Landry Parish	1.0	93		$35,000
June 6	5:31 AM CDT	EF1	Saint Landry Parish	1.8	419		$5,000
June 6	7:55 AM CDT	EF1	East Baton Rouge Parish	0.8	20
June 6	9:09 AM CDT	EF1	Ascension Parish	2.0	75
June 6	9:26 AM CDT	EF0	Assumption Parish	1.7	50
June 6	9:30 AM CDT	EF1	Livingston Parish	4.4	200
June 6	9:40 AM CDT	EF1	Saint James Parish	2.1	75
June 6	10:01 AM CDT	EF2	Ascension Parish	2.6	50	5
June 6	10:13 AM CDT	EF1	Livingston Parish	3.1	200
June 6	10:24 AM CDT	EF1	Livingston Parish	3.2	50
June 6	10:32 AM CDT	EF1	Lafourche Parish	3.5	100
June 6	10:42 AM CDT	EF0	Saint John the Baptist Parish	1.9	60
June 6	10:55 AM CDT	EF0	Saint John the Baptist Parish	4.6	30
June 6	11:01 AM CDT	EF0	Saint John the Baptist Parish	8.4	100
June 6	11:44 AM CDT	EF0	Tangipahoa Parish	2.8	100

June 19 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 19	11:45 AM CDT	EF0	Jefferson Davis Parish	0.0	10
June 19	10:47 PM CDT	EF2	Bossier Parish	1.4	175			$350,000

June 20 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 20	3:14 AM CDT	EF1	Rapides Parish	0.9	100			$50,000
June 20	3:30 AM CDT	EF1	Rapides Parish	1.8	250			$25,000

June 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 24	1:45 AM CDT	EF0	Morehouse Parish	1.2	75			$10,000

July 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 10	8:02 AM CDT	EF1	Orleans Parish	0.4	50			$300,000

September 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 19	11:02 AM CDT	EF0	Cameron Parish	0.6	50			$20,000

October 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 16	2:42 AM CDT	EF1	Calcasieu Parish	2.7	100			$500,000

October 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 20	8:42 PM CDT	EF1	Caddo Parish	3.6	350			$75,000

October 21 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 21	12:39 PM CDT	EF0	Jefferson Parish	1.4	25
October 21	1:07 PM CDT	EF0	Ascension Parish	0.1	15		1	$2,000

November 26 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 26	6:03 PM CST	EF2	Franklin Parish	7.0	700	1	1	$120,000
November 26	6:20 PM CST	EF1	Claiborne Parish	0.6	115			$25,000
November 26	6:46 PM CST	Unrated	Madison Parish	1.0	25

December 16 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Damage
December 16	10:10 AM CST	EF1	Bossier Parish	26.2	250		$520,000
December 16	10:29 AM CST	EF2	Rapides Parish	3.6	147		$200,000
December 16	11:08 AM CST	EF1	Claiborne to MS	11.7	600		$84,000
December 16	11:10 AM CST	EF3	Beauregard Parish	62.6	550	1	$25 million
December 16	3:42 PM CST	EF1	Tangipahoa Parish	4.9	75

Crossed into Louisiana

Tornadoes that touched down in a neighboring state and ran into Louisiana. They are counted under the state they began in.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 24	11:42 PM CDT	EF1	Shelby, TX to LA	30.7	900		1	$230,000
May 8	3:19 PM CDT	EF1	Caddo Parish, TX to LA	2.6	200			$60,000

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.