Louisiana storm reports for May 17, 2021

Name: NOAA storm reports, Louisiana, May 17, 2021
Creator: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center

NOAA recorded 3 wind reports and 9 tornado reports in Louisiana on May 17, 2021.

in Louisiana; 12
Storm reports: About 7 miles from Baton Rouge, LA; 81 mph
Highest gust: Highest rating EF1, about 25 miles from Slidell, LA; 9
Tornado reports

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports. Shading: radar estimate.

Wind report
Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

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

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports. Shading: radar estimate.

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 May 17, 2021 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

Wind3, most at 6 PM

Tornado9, most at 1 PM

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

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

Time	Rating	Where	Path
12:48 PM	EF0	About 16 miles from Lafayette, LA	0.24 mi long, 10 yd wide
1:13 PM	EF0	About 23 miles from Lafayette, LA	0.13 mi long, 10 yd wide
1:14 PM	EF0	About 15 miles from Lake Charles, LA	0.01 mi long, 10 yd wide
1:17 PM	EF0	About 6 miles from Lake Charles, LA	1.11 mi long, 10 yd wide
2:17 PM	EF0	About 21 miles from Lafayette, LA	0.15 mi long, 10 yd wide
3:30 PM	EF0	About 32 miles from Lake Charles, LA	0.2 mi long, 10 yd wide
4:12 PM	EF0	About 19 miles from Lafayette, LA	0.11 mi long, 10 yd wide
2:51 AM	EF1	About 25 miles from Slidell, LA	1.62 mi long, 175 yd wide
3:16 AM	EF0	About 20 miles from New Orleans, LA	0.31 mi long, 50 yd wide

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	81 mph	0
Lake Charles, LA	None	None	2
New Orleans, LA	None	58 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.

Time	Gust	Where
6:52 PM	58 mph	About 15 miles from Baton Rouge, LA
12:05 AM	81 mph	About 7 miles from Baton Rouge, LA
5:43 AM	58 mph	About 11 miles from New Orleans, LA