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Flash Flood — Bossier, LA

May 13, 2008

A cluster of storms moved east from northeast Texas into northwest Louisiana where it met up with a rapidly developing band of showers and thunderstorms. Some of this convection initially produced large hail and damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Eventually...heavy rainfall began across portions of northeast Texas and northwest Louisiana which continued all night and into the morning hours of May 14th.

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 96236). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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