Aug 28, 2020
Hurricane Laura made landfall along the Louisiana coast near Lake Charles in the early morning hours of August 27. It moved north into Central Louisiana during the morning and afternoon before turning to the northeast and tracking through Arkansas. Impacts from Laura were felt far from the center of the storm, which was mainly in the form of tropical storm force winds across portions of northeast Louisiana and southeast Arkansas. Farther east, into Mississippi, the tight pressure gradient that r
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 917762). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Smith County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.