Tornadoes · United States · Louisiana

2023 tornadoes in Louisiana

34 tornadoes touched down in Louisiana in 2023, about the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2022 2024 The whole country in 2023

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 2023

January 2 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
January 2	3:11 PM CST	EF1	Sabine Parish	5.2	70		$15,000
January 2	3:43 PM CST	EF0	Red River Parish	0.3	50		$10,000
January 2	4:46 PM CST	EF2	Jackson Parish	14.8	1,928	3	$850,000
January 2	6:19 PM CST	EF2	Union Parish	3.9	900		$250,000
January 2	6:36 PM CST	EF1	Morehouse Parish	1.4	75		$10,000
January 2	6:40 PM CST	EF1	Morehouse Parish	4.0	200		$100,000
January 2	9:02 PM CST	EF0	West Carroll Parish to AR	3.8	250		$120,000

January 24 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
January 24	4:44 PM CST	EF1	Calcasieu Parish	1.4	90		$15,000
January 24	5:05 PM CST	EF2	Calcasieu Parish	12.4	300	3	$505,000
January 24	5:12 PM CST	EF1	Beauregard Parish	6.5	75		$20,000
January 24	7:37 PM CST	EF1	Pointe Coupee Parish	1.1	75	3	$113,000
January 24	10:01 PM CST	EF1	Terrebonne Parish	3.0	75		$60,000
January 24	10:55 PM CST	Unrated	Jefferson Parish	2.9	100

February 8 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
February 8	5:51 PM CST	EF2	Tangipahoa Parish	3.5	175	$150,000
February 8	6:45 PM CST	EF2	Saint Landry Parish	3.6	225	$200,000
February 8	7:03 PM CST	EF1	Saint Landry Parish	1.5	100	$100,000

March 2 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 2	5:35 PM CST	EF1	Caddo Parish	4.8	100		2	$50 million

March 3 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 3	12:38 AM CST	EF0	Bienville Parish	2.4	50			$10,000

April 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 15	6:30 PM CDT	EF1	Bienville Parish	2.2	200			$30,000

May 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 6	5:57 AM CDT	EF1	Acadia Parish	5.3	75		1	$50,000

May 11 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 11	6:06 AM CDT	EF1	Caddo Parish	2.6	130	$10,000
May 11	7:55 AM CDT	EF1	De Soto Parish	0.2	130	$50,000
May 11	8:03 AM CDT	EF1	Grant Parish	0.5	80
May 11	8:21 AM CDT	EF1	Webster Parish	0.1	60	$20,000
May 11	10:59 AM CDT	EF1	Union Parish	0.6	80

June 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 20	4:00 PM CDT	EF2	Saint Charles Parish	3.8	400

July 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 10	6:16 PM CDT	EF0	Calcasieu Parish	0.1	30			$5,000

September 2 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 2	11:11 AM CDT	EF0	Jefferson Parish	0.7	75			$22,000

November 20 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
November 20	2:32 PM CST	EF1	Natchitoches Parish	8.8	150	$100,000
November 20	5:17 PM CST	EF0	Vernon Parish	1.4	75
November 20	5:58 PM CST	EF0	Rapides Parish	2.8	75
November 20	6:55 PM CST	EF1	Avoyelles Parish	9.6	300	$150,000
November 20	7:20 PM CST	EF1	Avoyelles Parish	14.9	300	$250,000
November 20	7:35 PM CST	EF1	Avoyelles Parish	6.7	300	$40,000

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
January 24	4:28 PM CST	EF2	Orange, TX to LA	25.2	500		2	$1.3 million
June 16	1:15 AM CDT	EF1	Panola, TX to LA	7.7	844			$100,000

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.