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Flash Flood — Bossier, LA

Apr 30, 2025

A weak cold front slowly advanced southeast into portions of Northeast Texas, Southeast Oklahoma, into Western Arkansas and Southern Missouri on April 30th, and focused a warm, very moist, and unstable air mass in place across much of East Texas, North Louisiana, and Southwest Arkansas during the afternoon through the evening hours. Meanwhile, an upper low pressure area ejected northeast from the Desert Southwest into the Texas Panhandle, with deep southwest flow aloft yielding weak disturbances

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1257485). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

Flood Risk Context for Bossier, LA

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