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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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]
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]
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
On April 24, 2011, the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office in Memphis, Tennessee, issued the first PDS flash flood watch to highlight the threat for widespread, significant and potentially life-threatening flash flooding due to repeated rounds of severe thunderstorms.