Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Lacombe, LA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Slidell Airport, LA, 7 miles east of Lacombe at 27 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 91°F and low of 73°F; January is the coolest, at 62°F and 41°F. July is the wettest at 7.3 inches of precipitation on average and October the driest at 3.7 inches; the year adds up to 61.9 inches over 77 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 52% of the year's precipitation (32.1 of 61.9 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 72 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (30); a normal September there has highs of 88°F and 4.1 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 80 days a year, almost all from May to October. Lows fall below freezing on about 24 nights a year. That 61.9 inches is more than at 47 of the 81 Louisiana stations used on this site (58%). Mandeville, 9 miles northwest, has its own station (Covington 4 NNW, LA): 62.4 inches a year, 0.5 more than here, and a July average high of 90°F against 91°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station New Canal Station, LA, 23 miles southwest, averaged 90°F in August and 56°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from May to September. Sea level at the New Canal tide gauge, 23 miles from Lacombe, has risen 2.36 ± 0.19 inches per decade from 1982 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 23.6 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 131 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 186 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Lacombe: 108 thunderstorm wind reports, 66 flash floods, 7 lightning strikes and 5 heavy rain events. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $2.4 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on April 4, 2011. June has had the most flash floods, 14 of 66. Of the 239 Louisiana cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 214 have had fewer than Lacombe.

Flood insurance policyholders in Lacombe's ZIP code 70445 have filed 1,907 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $43.2 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Katrina in 2005: 655 claims (34% of all) and $23.1 million, then Flooding in 1995 with 212 and Hurricane Isaac in 2012 with 202. 89% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 219 Louisiana cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 186 have fewer than Lacombe.