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Flash Flood — Grant, LA

Oct 21, 2017

Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed across Central and Northeast Louisiana during the afternoon and evening hours of October 21st, along an axis of low level moisture that extended north from Southcentral Louisiana and a weak upper level disturbance out ahead of a vigorous upper level trough digging into the Southern Plains. A very warm, moist, and unstable air mass was in place, with a small cluster of thunderstorms containing heavy rainfall developing over Northern Rapides and much o

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 719335). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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