Louisiana storm reports for October 31, 2018

Name: NOAA storm reports, Louisiana, October 31, 2018
Creator: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center

NOAA recorded 27 wind reports and 24 tornado reports in Louisiana on October 31, 2018.

in Louisiana; 51
Storm reports: About 4 miles from Lake Charles, LA; 81 mph
Highest gust: Highest rating EF2, near 31.25, -92.48, LA; 24
Tornado reports

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports.

Wind report
Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path
Surveyed wind damage

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
Surveyed wind damage

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, final severe weather database (from NOAA's Storm Data). Report day: 12:00 UTC on October 31, 2018 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

Wind27, most at 2 AM

Tornado24, most at 12 AM

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

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

Time	Rating	Where	Path
9:40 PM	EF1	About 36 miles from Lake Charles, LA	1.47 mi long, 280 yd wide
11:27 PM	EF1	About 29 miles from Lake Charles, LA	16.35 mi long, 600 yd wide
11:29 PM	EF2	Near 31.25, -92.48, LA	37.89 mi long, 500 yd wide
11:43 PM	EF1	About 43 miles from Lake Charles, LA	2.55 mi long, 300 yd wide
11:43 PM	EF1	About 36 miles from Lake Charles, LA	10.05 mi long, 500 yd wide
11:50 PM	EF1	About 16 miles from Lake Charles, LA	6.49 mi long, 900 yd wide
12:10 AM	EF1	About 57 miles from Lake Charles, LA	9.49 mi long, 300 yd wide
12:15 AM	EF1	About 2 miles from Lake Charles, LA	0.52 mi long, 126 yd wide
12:16 AM	EF0	About 11 miles from Lake Charles, LA	0.15 mi long, 50 yd wide
12:17 AM	EF2	About 52 miles from Lake Charles, LA	13.27 mi long, 900 yd wide
12:22 AM	EF1	Near 30.99, -92.63, LA	3.34 mi long, 600 yd wide
12:25 AM	EF1	Near 31.20, -92.58, LA	9.17 mi long, 50 yd wide

Show all 24 tornado reports

Time	Rating	Where	Path
12:30 AM	EF1	About 10 miles from Lake Charles, LA	0.98 mi long, 75 yd wide
12:50 AM	EF2	About 56 miles from Lafayette, LA	7.81 mi long, 800 yd wide
1:00 AM	EF2	About 58 miles from Lafayette, LA	5.66 mi long, 800 yd wide
1:13 AM	EF1	Near 31.15, -91.99, LA	12.58 mi long, 350 yd wide
1:24 AM	EF1	Near 31.57, -91.87, LA	10.08 mi long, 900 yd wide
1:30 AM	EF1	Near 31.48, -91.83, LA	1.05 mi long, 150 yd wide
2:53 AM	EF1	About 27 miles from Baton Rouge, LA	4.23 mi long, 100 yd wide
3:33 AM	EF1	About 46 miles from Baton Rouge, LA	1.09 mi long, 75 yd wide
3:36 AM	EF2	About 33 miles from Slidell, LA	10.87 mi long, 125 yd wide
3:53 AM	EF2	About 44 miles from Slidell, LA	4.3 mi long, 275 yd wide
3:57 AM	EF1	About 40 miles from Baton Rouge, LA	0.51 mi long, 75 yd wide
4:23 AM	EF0	About 26 miles from Slidell, LA	0.29 mi long, 30 yd wide

Time	Gust	Where
8:24 PM	64 mph	About 10 miles from Shreveport, LA
9:20 PM	60 mph	About 41 miles from Shreveport, LA
11:37 PM	58 mph	Near 32.77, -92.01, LA
12:10 AM	81 mph	About 4 miles from Lake Charles, LA
12:13 AM	58 mph	Near 32.92, -91.67, LA
1:00 AM	58 mph	About 33 miles from Lake Charles, LA
1:08 AM	58 mph	About 33 miles from Lake Charles, LA
1:30 AM	58 mph	Near 31.62, -91.81, LA
1:45 AM	58 mph	Near 31.44, -91.72, LA
1:50 AM	58 mph	Near 31.84, -91.42, LA
1:51 AM	58 mph	Near 31.63, -91.55, LA
2:00 AM	58 mph	In Lafayette, LA

Show all 27 wind reports

Time	Gust	Where
2:06 AM	55 mph	Near 32.81, -91.18, LA
2:41 AM	63 mph	About 19 miles from Baton Rouge, LA
2:45 AM	63 mph	About 19 miles from Baton Rouge, LA
2:50 AM	69 mph	About 15 miles from Baton Rouge, LA
2:50 AM	70 mph	About 26 miles from Baton Rouge, LA
2:52 AM	63 mph	About 3 miles from Baton Rouge, LA
3:01 AM	69 mph	About 6 miles from Baton Rouge, LA
3:10 AM	69 mph	About 38 miles from Baton Rouge, LA
3:33 AM	58 mph	About 42 miles from Lafayette, LA
4:06 AM	63 mph	About 35 miles from Slidell, LA
4:30 AM	63 mph	About 20 miles from Slidell, LA
4:30 AM	63 mph	About 21 miles from Slidell, LA
4:31 AM	63 mph	About 24 miles from Slidell, LA
5:15 AM	58 mph	About 6 miles from New Orleans, LA
6:36 AM	64 mph	About 56 miles from New Orleans, LA

Cities with reports nearby

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

City	Largest hail	Highest gust	Tornado reports
Baton Rouge, LA	None	69 mph	0
Lafayette, LA	None	58 mph	0
Lake Charles, LA	None	81 mph	3
New Orleans, LA	None	58 mph	0
Shreveport, LA	None	64 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.