Louisiana storm reports for January 8, 2024

Name: NOAA storm reports, Louisiana, January 8, 2024
Creator: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center

Jan 11, 2024

NOAA recorded 5 hail reports, 5 wind reports and 1 tornado report in Louisiana on January 8, 2024.

in Louisiana; 11
Storm reports: About 5 miles from Lake Charles, LA; 2.0 in
Largest hail: About 19 miles from New Orleans, LA; 66 mph
Highest gust: Highest rating EF0, about 42 miles from Baton Rouge, 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 January 8, 2024 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

Hail5, most at 12 PM

Wind5, most at 11 AM

Tornado1, most at 3 PM

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

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

Time	Rating	Where	Path
3:42 PM	EF0	About 42 miles from Baton Rouge, LA	0.88 mi long, 200 yd wide

Time	Size	Where
11:52 AM	2.0 in	About 5 miles from Lake Charles, LA
12:10 PM	2.0 in	About 3 miles from Lake Charles, LA
12:24 PM	1.0 in	About 13 miles from Lake Charles, LA
5:19 PM	1.0 in	About 17 miles from Slidell, LA
5:52 PM	1.0 in	About 7 miles from Slidell, LA

Time	Gust	Where
11:57 AM	58 mph	About 17 miles from Lake Charles, LA
4:47 PM	66 mph	About 19 miles from New Orleans, LA
6:25 PM	58 mph	About 22 miles from Lake Charles, LA
1:19 AM	58 mph	About 20 miles from Slidell, LA
2:25 AM	58 mph	About 14 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
Lake Charles, LA	2.0 in	None
Slidell, LA	1.0 in	None
New Orleans, LA	None	58 mph

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