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Between 6 and 8 inches of rain deluged the area and triggered a rare flash flood emergency — the most severe flood alert — Wednesday night, according to the National Weather Service. Heavy ...
The National Weather Service declared a flash flood emergency on Wednesday night for the I-10 corridor in the New Orleans area, including parts of four parishes.
Francine slammed into Louisiana's coast as a Category 2 hurricane Wednesday leaving hundreds of thousands without power and widespread flooding.
Major river flooding occurs in Amite River and Comite River, which experience their highest water levels since 1983. Homes are destroyed and swept away by flooding across the state. [10] In Zachary, a man is killed after a tornado knocks a tree onto his truck. [1] Damages from Tropical Storm Allison in Louisiana alone total to $65 million. [11]
More than a month’s worth of rain fell in several Texas and Louisiana cities from Monday to early Thursday, including Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s capital. A flash flood emergency was issued ...
A follow-on peer-reviewed paper indicates that the catastrophic flood in Louisiana was a result of intense precipitation produced by a slow-moving, tropical, low-pressure system interacting with an eastward-traveling baroclinic trough to the north. While tropical-midlatitude interactions of this nature are rare, they are not unprecedented. [10]
In May 2021, prolonged rainfall from a series of weather disturbances affected the South Central United States, namely Texas and Louisiana. [4] As a result of rainfall totals, which peaked at 17.16 in (43.6 cm) in Fannett, Texas, widespread flash flooding occurred. [1]
Winter storms moving across the country are producing heavy rain for the majority of the workweek across the Southeast, bringing the threat of flash flooding and isolated pockets of severe weather ...