Louisiana storm reports for January 2, 2017

Name: NOAA storm reports, Louisiana, January 2, 2017
Creator: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center

NOAA recorded 21 wind reports and 13 tornado reports in Louisiana on January 2, 2017.

in Louisiana; 34
Storm reports: About 31 miles from Baton Rouge, LA; 81 mph
Highest gust: Highest rating EF1, about 32 miles from Lake Charles, LA; 13
Tornado reports

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports.

Wind report
Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Sources: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports; damage surveys from the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports.

Wind report
Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, final severe weather database (from NOAA's Storm Data). Report day: 12:00 UTC on January 2, 2017 to 12:00 UTC the next day. Times are Central.

Select a dot or a path for the report. NWS survey teams walked the shaded paths after the storm; each is drawn at the widest width they found, so it can look wider than the damage at any one spot.

Reports by hour

Wind21, most at 11 AM

Tornado13, most at 11 AM

Reports per hour, Central time. Each row has its own scale.

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

Time	Rating	Where	Path
10:06 AM	EF1	About 32 miles from Lake Charles, LA	0.3 mi long, 20 yd wide
10:17 AM	EF1	About 28 miles from Lake Charles, LA	1.2 mi long, 50 yd wide
10:30 AM	EF1	About 25 miles from Lake Charles, LA	4.64 mi long, 100 yd wide
10:30 AM	EF1	About 18 miles from Lake Charles, LA	2.74 mi long, 100 yd wide
10:50 AM	EF1	About 29 miles from New Orleans, LA	4.65 mi long, 200 yd wide
11:06 AM	EF1	Near 31.37, -92.59, LA	0.54 mi long, 50 yd wide
11:30 AM	EF0	About 39 miles from Lafayette, LA	0.54 mi long, 25 yd wide
11:31 AM	EF1	Near 31.03, -92.37, LA	1.4 mi long, 100 yd wide
11:44 AM	EF1	About 52 miles from Lafayette, LA	1.64 mi long, 200 yd wide
11:47 AM	EF1	About 59 miles from Lafayette, LA	2.84 mi long, 200 yd wide
11:51 AM	EF1	Near 31.10, -92.07, LA	1.05 mi long, 200 yd wide
1:45 PM	EF1	About 54 miles from Baton Rouge, LA	0.08 mi long, 75 yd wide
2:43 PM	EF0	About 22 miles from Slidell, LA	1.69 mi long, 30 yd wide

Time	Gust	Where
10:26 AM	63 mph	About 6 miles from Slidell, LA
10:40 AM	66 mph	About 54 miles from Shreveport, LA
10:42 AM	64 mph	Near 31.63, -93.04, LA
10:44 AM	58 mph	About 24 miles from Lake Charles, LA
10:54 AM	70 mph	Near 31.52, -92.66, LA
11:00 AM	58 mph	About 53 miles from Lake Charles, LA
11:15 AM	58 mph	About 41 miles from Lake Charles, LA
11:45 AM	58 mph	About 37 miles from Lafayette, LA
11:50 AM	58 mph	About 52 miles from Lafayette, LA
11:50 AM	58 mph	Near 31.65, -91.83, LA
11:51 AM	58 mph	About 24 miles from Lafayette, LA
11:55 AM	58 mph	Near 31.45, -91.70, LA

Show all 21 wind reports

Time	Gust	Where
12:10 PM	61 mph	Near 31.63, -91.47, LA
12:25 PM	62 mph	Near 32.16, -91.72, LA
12:30 PM	69 mph	About 42 miles from Baton Rouge, LA
12:38 PM	58 mph	About 26 miles from Baton Rouge, LA
12:40 PM	58 mph	About 37 miles from Lafayette, LA
12:41 PM	81 mph	About 31 miles from Baton Rouge, LA
12:54 PM	69 mph	About 27 miles from Baton Rouge, LA
2:00 PM	75 mph	About 50 miles from Baton Rouge, LA
2:06 PM	69 mph	About 51 miles from Slidell, LA

Cities with reports nearby

Reports within 15 miles of the center of each city we track.

City	Largest hail	Highest gust	Tornado reports
Slidell, LA	None	63 mph	0

Reports are what observers recorded near a location, not a complete record of every storm. They don’t describe conditions at any building.