Tornadoes · United States · Louisiana

2020 tornadoes in Louisiana

45 tornadoes touched down in Louisiana in 2020, 38 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 5 people and injured 14.

2019 2021 The whole country in 2020

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 2020

January 11 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 11	1:24 AM CST	EF2	Bossier Parish	31.8	300	3		$1.3 million
January 11	2:19 AM CST	EF1	Union Parish	3.0	250			$60,000
January 11	6:11 AM CST	EF2	Pointe Coupee Parish	1.9	125		4	$250,000

April 12 14 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 12	9:41 AM CDT	EF2	De Soto Parish	9.1	400	1	$1.0 million
April 12	9:52 AM CDT	EF1	Bossier Parish	0.4	125		$150,000
April 12	9:57 AM CDT	EF1	De Soto Parish	6.7	300		$25,000
April 12	10:10 AM CDT	EF1	Webster Parish	6.1	1,000		$100,000
April 12	10:30 AM CDT	EF1	Bienville Parish	1.6	400
April 12	10:39 AM CDT	EF1	Bienville Parish	0.8	75		$200,000
April 12	11:36 AM CDT	EF3	Ouachita Parish	8.0	300		$250 million
April 12	11:39 AM CDT	EF3	Ouachita Parish	2.6	400		$750,000
April 12	11:46 AM CDT	EF1	Ouachita Parish	1.1	50		$25,000
April 12	12:02 PM CDT	EF1	Morehouse Parish	3.0	200		$20,000
April 12	12:10 PM CDT	EF2	West Carroll Parish	9.5	700		$36,000
April 12	12:11 PM CDT	EF1	Richland Parish	4.7	150		$12,000
April 12	12:11 PM CDT	EF1	Richland Parish	7.5	700		$26,000
April 12	12:41 PM CDT	EF0	East Carroll Parish	1.2	170		$75,000

April 19 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 19	2:17 PM CDT	EF1	Grant Parish	2.0	500
April 19	4:50 PM CDT	EF1	Vernon Parish	5.3	500	$300,000
April 19	10:13 PM CDT	EF1	Saint Tammany Parish	3.0	300

April 22 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Damage
April 22	9:09 PM CDT	EF2	Rapides Parish	8.4	500		$150,000
April 22	9:26 PM CDT	EF2	Rapides Parish	9.0	550	1	$1.0 million
April 22	9:27 PM CDT	EF1	Rapides Parish	3.9	500		$100,000
April 22	9:42 PM CDT	EF1	Rapides Parish	5.4	200		$150,000
April 22	10:06 PM CDT	EF1	Avoyelles Parish	7.6	1,200		$82,000
April 22	10:17 PM CDT	EF1	Concordia Parish	4.0	880		$33,000

April 23 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 23	1:08 AM CDT	EF2	Avoyelles Parish	3.6	100	$1.0 million
April 23	1:20 AM CDT	EF1	Avoyelles Parish	1.1	100	$50,000
April 23	1:51 AM CDT	EF1	Acadia Parish	9.5	150	$50,000

April 28 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 28	5:29 PM CDT	EF0	Tangipahoa Parish	2.3	75
April 28	8:48 PM CDT	EF1	Jefferson Parish	7.0	50

May 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 5	9:45 PM CDT	EF1	Beauregard Parish	13.6	75			$300,000

May 8 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 8	2:35 PM CDT	EF1	Evangeline Parish	0.6	100			$150,000

May 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 14	6:56 PM CDT	EF1	Saint Tammany Parish	2.0	75

May 17 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 17	5:41 PM CDT	EF1	Allen Parish	4.3	25			$10,000
May 17	6:01 PM CDT	EF0	Cameron Parish	1.0	10
May 17	6:40 PM CDT	EF0	Calcasieu Parish	0.1	10
May 17	8:00 PM CDT	EF0	Evangeline Parish	0.2	10
May 17	8:31 PM CDT	EF3	Acadia Parish	3.9	100	1	9	$500,000

May 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 25	6:12 PM CDT	Unrated	Sabine Parish	2.3	40

June 24 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 24	5:12 AM CDT	EF1	East Baton Rouge Parish	3.2	125
June 24	5:35 AM CDT	EF1	East Baton Rouge Parish	3.4	60
June 24	5:50 AM CDT	EF1	East Baton Rouge Parish	3.5	100	$100,000
June 24	2:30 PM CDT	EF0	West Baton Rouge Parish	0.7	75	$15,000

December 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 13	6:35 PM CST	EF1	Saint Landry Parish	1.1	106

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 22	7:28 PM CDT	EF2	Newton, TX to LA	36.4	600			$475,000

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.