West Carroll Parish

Every recorded tornado

1. Injuries and deaths are for the tornado’s whole path, which may extend beyond the county. Deaths recorded within West Carroll Parish: 0.
2. Weak tornadoes were under-recorded before Doppler radar coverage became national in the early 1990s, so earlier decades read low. Ratings use the Fujita scale before February 2007 and the Enhanced Fujita scale after.

Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, 1950 to 2025.

Every storm within 100 miles

1. Tropical storms and hurricanes (34 kt or more, still tropical) at closest approach. Post-tropical remnants with gale-force winds are listed but not counted. Direct: track within 50 miles; near: within 100 miles. Distance is measured to the county boundary for counties and to the city centre for cities, using positions interpolated hourly between HURDAT2 fixes.

National Hurricane Center HURDAT2, 1851 to 2025.

Smoke overhead

1. A smoke day is a date on which a smoke plume traced by NOAA Hazard Mapping System analysts from satellite imagery covered this place's point (the county's population centre or the city centre). Counts here are of medium or heavy smoke. Since 2018 analysts have often drawn light smoke as one area over most of the continent, so light-smoke counts are not comparable from year to year. The plumes show smoke anywhere in the air above, not air quality at the ground, and smoke hidden by cloud is missed.

NOAA Hazard Mapping System smoke analysis, 2011 to 2026, retrieved October 30, 2026.

Claims by ZIP code

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OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026. NOAA Storm Events through 2026.

1. The Palmer Drought Severity Index is computed by NOAA each month from the county's average temperature and precipitation, relative to the county's own climate. Zero is normal; -3 or lower is severe drought and -4 or lower extreme drought. It describes the long-term balance of moisture, not water supply or crop losses.

NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county Palmer Drought Severity Index, 1895 to September 2026, issued October 6, 2026.

Every earthquake of magnitude 4 or more within 50 miles

1. Earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or more in the USGS Comprehensive Catalog since 1900. Within 50 miles means the epicentre lies within 50 miles of the county boundary (or inside the county).
2. Small earthquakes were under-recorded before the modern seismic networks of the 1970s and are still missed in remote areas, so early decades read low. Magnitudes are as the catalogue reports them and mix scales (moment, local and body-wave).

USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog, 1900 to present, retrieved October 30, 2026.

More event types since 1996

Costliest events since 1996

1. Oct 16, 2006Flash Flood$4.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Very heavy rain fell across West Carroll Parish, especially the southern half near Epps, during the afternoon and evening of October 16th. Five to ten inches of rain fell during this time causing flash flooding across the parish. Several homes were flooded along with many roads across the parish.

2. Sep 3, 2008Flash Flood$2.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   During the late afternoon of the 3rd, another heavy band of storms developed across the region and produced another 3 to 5 inches of rainfall. This rain fell on already soaked and flooded land. This new rainfall flooded around 50 homes and numerous roads.

3. Sep 3, 2008Flash Flood$1.3 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Heavy rainfall fell across all of West Carroll Parish as persistent rain bands continued to impact the area from weakening Hurricane Gustav. Rainfall amounts between 7 and 13 inches fell across the parish, mostly during the evening of the 2nd and early morning of the 3rd.||Numerous roads were flooded with some washed out. Agriculture was extremely hard hit as farmland was flooded and crops became water logged. Many areas saw total loss of some crops while other areas experienced very low yields. Cotton, soybeans and sweet potatoes were some of the hardest hit crops.

4. Mar 8, 2016Flash Flood$1.2 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Flooding occurred across the parish including Highway 17 between Forest and Pioneer.|Flooding occurred at Oak Grove City Hall.

5. Feb 24, 2011Tornado$750,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   The tornado first touched down near the intersection of Highways 585 and 835 in the northwest part of West Carroll Parish. A grain truck was overturned first. Significant damage occurred to the roof of a church and minor damage occurred to the nearby parsonage. Then, the tornado knocked down a very large tree, which fell on a shed and the corner of a house. Two people narrowly escaped harm from this falling tree. As the tornado continued to move east-northeast, it destroyed a small shed, damaged a larger shed, and blew out some windows of a house. A large antenna was also significantly bent over. A travel trailer was turned about 45 degrees into a garage. The next structure the…

6. Dec 22, 1998Ice Storm, West Carroll$600,000
7. Apr 24, 2003Tornado$400,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   This tornado touch down in a field just to the W of Duckworth road. This tornado continued 11 miles to the NE and dissipated in Floyd. Along its path a mobile home was totally destroyed on Hunt road. On highway 17, a house was destroyed because several trees fell through the house. Two mobile homes had minor damage along highway 17. In Floyd, 2 homes had their roofs blown off. In addition to the structural damage, hundreds of trees were blown down or snapped.

8. Apr 7, 2021Tornado$300,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   An EF1 tornado developed on the evening of April 7, near the intersection of Costello Road and Coffey Road in West Carroll Parish, LA. The tornado tracked northeast, crossed Hwy 585 near Creech Road, where a metal building system structure was significantly damaged, including the roof being removed and thrown. A home sustained some roof damage as well with several shingles missing. The tornado continued to the northeast, damaged more homes and destroyed a central pivot irrigation system southwest of Kilbourne. The tornado then continued northeast, crossed Hwy 159 north of Kilbourne and moved just north of due east along E Arkla Road. Several structures here were damaged including…

9. Apr 26, 2011Tornado$250,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   This tornado touched down in the Darnell Community and tracked into East Carroll Parish before dissipating. Eight power poles were snapped and several sheds/barns had roof damage with two destroyed. Two grain storage bins were severely damaged and siding damage occurred to a volunteer fire dept building in the Bowie Community in East Carroll Parish. Additionally, numerous trees and power lines were snapped and uprooted along the path. Maximum winds were around 115 mph. Total path length was 11 miles.

10. Jan 29, 2013Tornado$250,000
    National Weather Service narrative

    The tornado removed the roof and knocked down most walls of a house, destroyed several outbuildings, flipped several travel trailers, caused minor roof damage to a few other buildings, and knocked down trees and large limbs. Maximum wind speed was estimated at 120 mph.

1. Storm Events records before 1996 cover only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail. Damage figures are as reported by the National Weather Service at the time, not adjusted for inflation.

NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, 1950 to 2026, issued October 26, 2026.

All-time high

110°FAug 17, 1909

All-time low

−4°FJan 19, 1930

Warmest night

87°FJul 9, 1998

Coldest day

14°FJan 16, 2024

Wettest day

10.08 inMar 10, 2016

Snowiest day

12.5 inDec 22, 1929

Hottest year

1921mean 68.0°F

Coldest year

2014mean 60.6°F

Wettest year

201985.75 in

Driest year

201030.08 in

Snowiest season

21.5 in1929-30

Station Portland (USC00035866), 128 ft elevation, 29.6 miles from the population centre. Daily records from 1909 to October 27, 2026; 94.4% of days in the last 30 years are complete. Records at a single station can differ from a city’s official threaded record, which may combine several stations.

NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network Daily.

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OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries, retrieved October 30, 2026. Statewide declarations are not listed.

Neighbouring counties

• Tornadoes NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, through 2025.
• Tropical cyclones NOAA National Hurricane Center HURDAT2 (Atlantic; Northeast and Central Pacific), through 2025.
• Wildfire USGS/USFS Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity, through 2026.
• Storm events NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, through 2026.
• Flood insurance OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026.
• Declarations OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries v2, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Weather records NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network Daily, station USC00035866.
• River crests NOAA National Weather Service, National Water Prediction Service river gauges, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Drought NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county Palmer Drought Severity Index, through September 2026.
• Smoke NOAA NESDIS Hazard Mapping System smoke analysis, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Earthquakes USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog (ComCat), retrieved October 30, 2026.

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