Louisiana storm reports for April 15, 2023

Name: NOAA storm reports, Louisiana, April 15, 2023
Creator: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center

NOAA recorded 19 hail reports, 22 wind reports and 1 tornado report in Louisiana on April 15, 2023.

in Louisiana; 42
Storm reports: About 25 miles from Shreveport, LA; 2.75 in
Largest hail: About 55 miles from New Orleans, LA; 76 mph
Highest gust: Highest rating EF1, about 28 miles from Shreveport, LA; 1
Tornado reports

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports. Shading: radar estimate.

Wind report
Estimated gusts, 50 to 90 mph
Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Sources: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports; radar hail estimates from NOAA MRMS; gust estimates from NOAA URMA; 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
Estimated gusts, 50 to 90 mph
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 April 15, 2023 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. Gust lines are estimates: the highest gust of the day in NOAA's hourly 2.5 km wind analysis (URMA), which fills in between weather stations. They aren't measurements at any building.

Reports by hour

Hail19, most at 6 PM

Wind22, most at 1 PM

Tornado1, most at 6 PM

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

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

Time	Rating	Where	Path
6:30 PM	EF1	About 28 miles from Shreveport, LA	2.24 mi long, 200 yd wide

Time	Size	Where
5:05 PM	1.5 in	About 7 miles from Shreveport, LA
5:05 PM	1.25 in	About 6 miles from Shreveport, LA
5:11 PM	1.25 in	About 9 miles from Shreveport, LA
5:21 PM	1.5 in	About 14 miles from Shreveport, LA
5:41 PM	1.5 in	About 17 miles from Shreveport, LA
6:11 PM	2.0 in	About 23 miles from Shreveport, LA
6:20 PM	1.5 in	About 25 miles from Shreveport, LA
6:22 PM	2.75 in	About 25 miles from Shreveport, LA
6:35 PM	2.0 in	About 48 miles from Shreveport, LA
6:35 PM	1.75 in	About 31 miles from Shreveport, LA
6:51 PM	1.5 in	About 31 miles from Shreveport, LA
7:00 PM	1.25 in	About 55 miles from Shreveport, LA

Show all 19 hail reports

Time	Size	Where
7:03 PM	1.75 in	About 30 miles from Shreveport, LA
8:05 PM	1.0 in	About 16 miles from Shreveport, LA
8:10 PM	1.0 in	About 29 miles from Shreveport, LA
8:15 PM	1.0 in	About 46 miles from Shreveport, LA
9:54 PM	1.0 in	Near 31.31, -92.51, LA
2:11 AM	1.0 in	Near 29.42, -90.77, LA
2:14 AM	1.0 in	About 10 miles from New Orleans, LA

Time	Gust	Where
8:40 AM	75 mph	About 33 miles from Lake Charles, LA
10:00 AM	58 mph	About 9 miles from Lafayette, LA
12:00 PM	60 mph	About 46 miles from Slidell, LA
12:35 PM	60 mph	About 32 miles from New Orleans, LA
1:08 PM	60 mph	About 10 miles from Slidell, LA
1:14 PM	60 mph	About 3 miles from Slidell, LA
1:18 PM	60 mph	About 3 miles from Slidell, LA
1:25 PM	60 mph	About 3 miles from Slidell, LA
1:30 PM	67 mph	About 8 miles from New Orleans, LA
1:53 PM	59 mph	About 6 miles from New Orleans, LA
7:35 PM	64 mph	About 56 miles from Shreveport, LA
7:55 PM	70 mph	Near 31.82, -93.01, LA

Show all 22 wind reports

Time	Gust	Where
8:01 PM	64 mph	Near 31.57, -93.47, LA
9:13 PM	60 mph	Near 32.92, -92.50, LA
11:24 PM	58 mph	About 36 miles from Lake Charles, LA
12:24 AM	58 mph	About 26 miles from Lafayette, LA
1:03 AM	58 mph	About 25 miles from Lafayette, LA
1:15 AM	58 mph	About 30 miles from Lafayette, LA
1:18 AM	58 mph	About 30 miles from Lafayette, LA
2:21 AM	64 mph	Near 29.35, -90.73, LA
2:55 AM	61 mph	About 46 miles from New Orleans, LA
3:12 AM	76 mph	About 55 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
Shreveport, LA	1.5 in	None
New Orleans, LA	1.0 in	67 mph
Lafayette, LA	None	58 mph
Slidell, LA	None	60 mph

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