Apr 19, 2016
A band of showers and thunderstorms producing heavy rainfall developed during the mid and late afternoon hours on April 19th, and moved repeatedly over the same areas across Northern Bienville and Southern Lincoln Parishes. Additional storms merged with this line, thus enhancing the heavy rain, and produced a band of two to four inch rainfall totals in one to two hours time over already saturated grounds from heavy rainfall that fell a week prior along the Interstate 20 corridor. This heavy rain
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 620076). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Bienville County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.