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2024 tornadoes in Louisiana

95 tornadoes touched down in Louisiana in 2024, 191 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 2 people and injured 6.

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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 2024

January 8 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 8	3:42 PM CST	EF0	Assumption Parish	0.9	200			$150,000

April 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 9	8:56 PM CDT	EF0	Sabine Parish	3.5	440

April 10 15 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 10	6:30 AM CDT	EF1	Cameron Parish	3.1	150	$250,000
April 10	6:31 AM CDT	EF1	Cameron Parish	3.1	100	$10,000
April 10	6:38 AM CDT	EF2	Calcasieu Parish	1.1	150	$500,000
April 10	6:41 AM CDT	EF1	Calcasieu Parish	0.1	100	$10,000
April 10	6:41 AM CDT	EF1	Calcasieu Parish	0.8	100	$5,000
April 10	6:51 AM CDT	EF1	Jefferson Davis Parish	6.6	100	$200,000
April 10	7:17 AM CDT	EF1	Saint Landry Parish	1.2	200	$15,000
April 10	7:27 AM CDT	EF1	Acadia Parish	0.1	100	$5,000
April 10	7:38 AM CDT	EF1	Saint Landry Parish	0.1	150	$2,000
April 10	7:58 AM CDT	EF1	Pointe Coupee Parish	23.8	250	$70,000
April 10	8:13 AM CDT	EF2	West Feliciana Parish to MS	14.6	700	$20,000
April 10	9:49 AM CDT	EF1	Saint Tammany Parish	3.3	200
April 10	10:01 AM CDT	EF2	Saint Tammany Parish	11.0	350	$1.0 million
April 10	10:03 AM CDT	EF1	Saint Tammany Parish to MS	9.8	250
April 10	10:06 AM CDT	EF2	Saint Tammany Parish to MS	7.8	300

April 28 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 28	7:07 PM CDT	EF1	Caddo Parish	3.2	350	$500,000
April 28	7:25 PM CDT	EF0	Bossier Parish	2.9	300
April 28	7:32 PM CDT	EF1	Bossier Parish	3.0	325
April 28	7:33 PM CDT	EF0	Bossier Parish	1.7	275

May 2 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 2	10:09 AM CDT	EF1	Sabine Parish	5.2	325
May 2	11:32 AM CDT	Unrated	Jefferson Davis Parish	0.0	1

May 13 10 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 13	4:41 PM CDT	EF2	Calcasieu Parish	3.4	200	$250,000
May 13	4:45 PM CDT	EF1	Calcasieu Parish	6.5	300	$150,000
May 13	6:22 PM CDT	EF2	Saint Martin Parish	8.6	400	$250,000
May 13	6:34 PM CDT	Unrated	Saint Martin Parish	3.6	1
May 13	6:35 PM CDT	Unrated	Saint Martin Parish	4.2	1
May 13	6:37 PM CDT	Unrated	Iberville Parish	0.9	100
May 13	6:39 PM CDT	EF0	Iberville Parish	6.6	150
May 13	6:43 PM CDT	EF0	Pointe Coupee Parish	0.9	100	$15,000
May 13	6:54 PM CDT	EF0	Iberville Parish	1.8	120	$15,000
May 13	7:23 PM CDT	EF1	Livingston Parish	3.3	150	$12,000

May 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 16	10:46 PM CDT	EF1	Saint James Parish	4.8	120			$20,000

May 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 22	7:30 PM CDT	EF1	Bossier Parish	0.2	100			$10,000

May 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 29	1:45 PM CDT	Unrated	Cameron Parish	0.0	1

May 30 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 30	7:30 PM CDT	EF1	De Soto Parish	2.5	175
May 30	7:35 PM CDT	EF1	De Soto Parish	1.6	275	$100,000
May 30	7:36 PM CDT	EF1	De Soto Parish	1.0	110
May 30	7:51 PM CDT	EF1	De Soto Parish	3.9	400	$100,000
May 30	7:58 PM CDT	EF1	De Soto Parish	0.5	250
May 30	7:59 PM CDT	EF1	De Soto Parish	0.3	100
May 30	9:16 PM CDT	EF1	Rapides Parish	4.1	50	$20,000

June 4 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 4	4:55 PM CDT	EF1	Saint Helena Parish	3.0	100
June 4	4:57 PM CDT	EF0	Saint Helena Parish	4.4	75
June 4	5:08 PM CDT	EF1	Tangipahoa Parish	3.6	100
June 4	5:08 PM CDT	EF1	Tangipahoa Parish	7.1	300

June 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 27	6:26 PM CDT	EF0	Calcasieu Parish	0.1	10			$50,000

July 8 25 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 8	1:15 PM CDT	EF2	Sabine Parish	16.3	950			$1.0 million
July 8	1:33 PM CDT	EF2	Sabine Parish	25.0	900			$300,000
July 8	1:39 PM CDT	EF1	De Soto Parish	3.6	100
July 8	1:47 PM CDT	EF1	De Soto Parish to TX	27.5	850		1	$1.1 million
July 8	2:15 PM CDT	EF2	Red River Parish	52.9	800	2	1	$706,000
July 8	2:51 PM CDT	Unrated	Natchitoches Parish	2.3	75
July 8	3:30 PM CDT	EF1	Bienville Parish	3.3	300
July 8	3:42 PM CDT	EF1	Sabine Parish	1.3	400
July 8	3:46 PM CDT	EF1	Bossier Parish	2.7	600			$10,000
July 8	3:59 PM CDT	EF2	Sabine Parish	1.4	164		1	$100,000
July 8	4:00 PM CDT	EF0	Bossier Parish	2.0	50
July 8	4:01 PM CDT	EF1	Webster Parish	1.1	479			$50,000
July 8	4:03 PM CDT	EF1	Lafayette to AR	7.1	300			$75,000
July 8	4:10 PM CDT	EF1	Sabine Parish	9.7	500			$75,000
July 8	4:11 PM CDT	EF1	Webster Parish	1.5	345
July 8	4:25 PM CDT	EF1	De Soto Parish	2.5	67
July 8	4:37 PM CDT	EF1	Webster Parish	4.8	400			$25,000
July 8	4:42 PM CDT	EF1	Webster Parish	3.9	375			$10,000
July 8	4:44 PM CDT	EF0	De Soto Parish	3.4	250
July 8	4:48 PM CDT	EF1	Columbia to AR	6.5	300			$35,000
July 8	4:57 PM CDT	EF0	De Soto Parish	0.4	200
July 8	5:21 PM CDT	EF1	Caddo Parish	1.9	150			$10,000
July 8	6:02 PM CDT	EF1	Natchitoches Parish	5.7	100
July 8	6:59 PM CDT	EF2	Union Parish	3.2	750			$30,000
July 8	7:42 PM CDT	EF2	Union Parish	1.5	175			$300,000

November 5 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 5	8:07 AM CST	EF1	Acadia Parish	1.0	150		3	$100,000
November 5	9:41 AM CST	EF1	Acadia Parish	5.0	300			$150,000

December 26 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
December 26	5:49 PM CST	EF1	Sabine Parish	1.9	220	$35,000
December 26	7:59 PM CST	EF1	Jackson Parish	1.3	100	$100,000
December 26	8:30 PM CST	EF1	Vernon Parish	4.0	100	$5,000
December 26	8:32 PM CST	EF1	Rapides Parish	1.9	150	$75,000
December 26	8:41 PM CST	EF1	Rapides Parish	1.4	100	$75,000

December 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 27	7:45 AM CST	EF0	Saint Tammany Parish	1.8	50			$6,000

December 28 14 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
December 28	8:22 AM CST	EF1	Beauregard Parish	1.5	100	$5,000
December 28	3:20 PM CST	EF1	Vernon Parish	6.3	100	$5,000
December 28	3:27 PM CST	EF0	Vernon Parish	3.3	50	$10,000
December 28	3:49 PM CST	EF1	Vernon Parish	1.2	50	$5,000
December 28	4:16 PM CST	EF1	Madison Parish	16.2	280	$250,000
December 28	4:19 PM CST	EF1	Richland Parish	5.6	130	$30,000
December 28	4:28 PM CST	EF1	Madison Parish	1.8	200	$5,000
December 28	4:49 PM CST	EF1	East Carroll Parish to MS	17.9	300	$70,000
December 28	5:06 PM CST	EF1	Evangeline Parish	15.4	200	$5,000
December 28	5:12 PM CST	EF1	Concordia Parish	0.4	80	$10,000
December 28	5:17 PM CST	Unrated	Cameron Parish	4.3	1
December 28	5:40 PM CST	EF0	Pointe Coupee Parish	1.9	50	$1,000
December 28	6:51 PM CST	EF0	East Baton Rouge Parish	2.8	50	$3,000
December 28	8:47 PM CST	EF1	Saint Tammany Parish	1.2	50	$35,000

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
December 28	2:26 PM CST	EF3	Chambers, TX to LA	67.9	880		2	$500,000

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.