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2022 tornadoes in Louisiana

55 tornadoes touched down in Louisiana in 2022, 68 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 4 people and injured 60.

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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 2022

January 9 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 9	4:42 AM CST	EF1	Sabine Parish	0.2	100			$11,000
January 9	4:53 AM CST	EF2	Sabine Parish	3.6	900		6	$1.5 million

March 22 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 22	11:23 AM CDT	EF1	Madison Parish to MS	6.6	100			$5,000
March 22	7:21 PM CDT	EF3	Arabi tornado	11.5	320	1	2	$33 million
March 22	7:25 PM CDT	EF1	Saint Tammany Parish	15.0	100			$5,000

March 30 15 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 30	11:53 AM CDT	EF0	Natchitoches Parish	1.2	100	$5,000
March 30	11:53 AM CDT	EF0	Natchitoches Parish	5.5	100
March 30	12:05 PM CDT	EF1	Natchitoches Parish	3.7	200	$12,000
March 30	12:20 PM CDT	EF1	Bienville Parish	1.7	400
March 30	12:22 PM CDT	EF0	Natchitoches Parish	2.7	50
March 30	12:28 PM CDT	EF1	Jackson Parish	0.3	200	$1,000
March 30	12:37 PM CDT	EF1	Vernon Parish	2.1	85	$10,000
March 30	12:42 PM CDT	EF1	Jackson Parish	0.7	500
March 30	12:44 PM CDT	EF1	Jackson Parish	4.2	200	$10,000
March 30	1:53 PM CDT	EF1	Richland Parish	7.4	1,000	$50,000
March 30	2:03 PM CDT	EF0	Richland Parish	1.8	25	$50,000
March 30	2:10 PM CDT	EF1	Franklin Parish	6.8	350	$85,000
March 30	2:51 PM CDT	EF2	Madison Parish to MS	17.3	300	$270,000
March 30	6:12 PM CDT	EF1	Tangipahoa Parish	6.4	150	$250,000
March 30	7:45 PM CDT	EF0	Saint Tammany Parish	2.0	50

April 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 5	3:45 AM CDT	EF1	Lincoln Parish	5.1	150			$10,000

April 12 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 12	6:34 PM CDT	EF1	Ouachita Parish	2.5	300	1	$50,000
April 12	9:54 PM CDT	EF1	Caddo Parish	4.3	200		$190,000
April 12	9:55 PM CDT	EF1	Caddo Parish	12.0	400		$345,000
April 12	9:57 PM CDT	EF0	Caddo Parish	1.2	50
April 12	10:23 PM CDT	EF1	Bienville Parish	11.5	525		$50,000

April 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 13	5:11 PM CDT	EF2	Winn Parish	18.7	625			$250,000

May 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 21	12:12 AM CDT	EF1	Caddo Parish	1.6	200			$50,000

May 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 25	8:36 AM CDT	EF0	Pointe Coupee Parish	1.4	75

June 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 30	11:00 AM CDT	EF0	Evangeline Parish	0.1	10

August 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 18	1:20 PM CDT	EF0	Cameron Parish	1.2	10

August 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 26	4:24 PM CDT	EF0	Calcasieu Parish	0.3	10

October 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 25	4:39 AM CDT	EF2	Allen Parish	0.4	170			$150,000

November 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 4	10:57 PM CDT	EF0	Caddo Parish	1.3	70			$3,000

November 26 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 26	2:18 PM CST	EF1	Saint Charles Parish	1.9	200			$35,000
November 26	3:34 PM CST	EF1	Saint Tammany Parish	3.0	75

November 29 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
November 29	6:03 PM CST	EF3	Caldwell Parish	7.9	300	1	$450,000
November 29	7:06 PM CST	Unrated	Madison Parish	1.1	10
November 29	7:32 PM CST	Unrated	Madison Parish	0.4	10

December 13 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 13	4:36 PM CST	EF2	Caddo Parish	3.5	700	2	2	$500,000
December 13	8:23 PM CST	EF3	Union Parish	9.1	500		14	$1.2 million
December 13	10:19 PM CST	EF1	Franklin Parish	11.3	300			$270,000
December 13	10:26 PM CST	EF1	Rapides Parish	2.7	100			$40,000
December 13	10:31 PM CST	EF1	Rapides Parish	7.3	150			$75,000

December 14 10 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 14	9:25 AM CST	Unrated	Evangeline Parish	0.0	1
December 14	10:49 AM CST	EF2	Iberia Parish	5.2	300		16	$500,000
December 14	10:52 AM CST	Unrated	Iberia Parish	0.2	10
December 14	11:58 AM CST	EF1	Tangipahoa Parish	6.8	50			$5,000
December 14	2:20 PM CST	EF2	Saint Charles Parish	9.8	75	1	8	$250,000
December 14	2:54 PM CST	EF0	Saint Tammany Parish	7.7	50
December 14	3:02 PM CST	EF0	Terrebonne Parish	1.6	50			$100,000
December 14	3:49 PM CST	EF2	Jefferson Parish	10.6	200		10	$150 million
December 14	4:43 PM CST	Unrated	Saint Bernard Parish	4.0	50
December 14	5:01 PM CST	Unrated	Plaquemines Parish	7.1	50

December 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 15	11:16 AM CST	EF1	Saint Martin Parish	0.1	50			$20,000

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.