Oct 7, 2017
Hurricane Nate began as a tropical depression over the northwest Caribbean Sea on the morning of October 4th and moved fairly rapidly northward, with forward speeds in excess of 20 mph, for the next several days while gaining strength. The storm moved north-northwestward through much of the day on the 7th, as it approached southeast Louisiana before turning northward.||Two landfalls occurred in the CWA. The first was near the mouth of the Mississippi River at 7 pm CDT as a Category 1 hurricane.
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 720083). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Lower St. Bernard County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.