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Flash flood emergency for New Orleans as Francine pounds Louisiana: Updates John Bacon, Thao Nguyen, Dinah Voyles Pulver and Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Updated September 12, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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 ...
Flash flood emergency for New Orleans: Francine pounds Louisiana Developments: ∎ A few tornadoes were possible in parts of the Southeast, and a tornado watch was issued for portions of central ...
In St. Tammany Parish, surface runoff from flash flooding causes some rivers to exceed flood stage. [16] Damage in Louisiana totaled to $150,000 (2002 USD, $260,000 2024 USD). September 5, 2002 – Tropical Storm Fay develops offshore the Louisiana coast before making landfall in Texas as a moderate tropical storm.
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]
A month’s worth of rain in 3 days triggers dangerous flash flooding in Texas and Louisiana Mary Gilbert and Rob Shackelford, CNN Meteorologists January 25, 2024 at 2:49 PM
One is a flash flood watch, which means that conditions are favorable for flash flooding, and the other is a flash flood warning, meaning that a flash flood is occurring or one will occur imminently and is usually issued when there are strong weather radar echoes for an area that is prone to flash flooding. [2]