2,076 first-hand accounts of flood events in Louisiana, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Hurricane Gustav emerged into the southeast Gulf of Mexico as a major category 3 hurricane on August 31st after developing in the Caribbean Sea and moving across western Cuba.
Read the full account →A weak frontal boundary entered Louisiana on the 11th and slowly moved into deep south central Louisiana during the early morning hours of the 12th.
Read the full account →Slow-moving thunderstorms produced four to six inches of rain across Calcasieu Parish during morning rush hour, tying up traffic for several hours. Motorists were stranded in high water across Lake Charles, Westlake, and Sulphur.
Read the full account →An area of thunderstorms persisted over portions of extreme southeast Louisiana during the day and evening hours producing 6 to 12 inches of rain across the affected parishes. The highest rainfall total was just southeast of Thibodaux where 11.13 inches of rain was recorded.
Read the full account →An area of thunderstorms persisted over portions of extreme southeast Louisiana during the day and evening hours producing 6 to 12 inches of rain across the affected parishes. The highest rainfall total was just southeast of Thibodaux where 11.13 inches of rain was recorded.
Read the full account →Outer rainbands on the eastern periphery of the circulation of Tropical Storm Allison which moved slowly across southeast Texas affected southeast Louisiana beginning late on June 5th, producing heavy rainfall over much of southeast Louisiana.
Read the full account →Hurricane Gustav was the 2nd major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season. It took shape as a tropical depression on the morning of August 25th just southeast of Haiti, and rapidly strengthened to hurricane status by the morning of August 26th.
Read the full account →Hurricane Gustav moved northwestward into the southeast Louisiana coast during the early morning hours of September 1st. The storm continued a steady northwestward motion into east central Louisiana and northwest Louisiana during the evening hours of September 1st.
Read the full account →A mesoscale convective complex formed across southeast Oklahoma, southwest Arkansas and northeast Texas during the predawn hours of July 28th and spread southeast towards the Interstate 20 corridor of northeast Texas into northwest Louisiana during the day.
Read the full account →A series of upper level disturbances interacting with a stalled frontal boundary in the northern Gulf of Mexico produced numerous showers and thunderstorms across south-central Louisiana from late on December 7, 2009 through the morning hours on December 8, 2009.
Read the full account →A mesoscale convective complex formed across southeast Oklahoma, southwest Arkansas and northeast Texas during the predawn hours of July 28th and spread southeast towards the Interstate 20 corridor of northeast Texas into northwest Louisiana during the day.
Read the full account →The Sabine River flooded below Toledo Bend Dam in early February, reaching the highest flood levels since May and July 1989. On the Louisiana side of the river, hundreds of acres of farmland were washed away, as well as a dozen cattle.
Read the full account →Extensive heavy rainfall across much of eastern Texas and Louisiana during the month of October 2009 led to considerable runoff flowing into the Sabine River basin well into November 2009.
Read the full account →Hurricane Cindy developed from a tropical depression that formed over the extreme western Caribbean Sea on July 3. This depression moved northwest over the Yucatan Peninsula and emerged over the south central Gulf of Mexico on July 4.
Read the full account →Hurricane Cindy developed from a tropical depression that formed over the extreme western Caribbean Sea on July 3. This depression moved northwest over the Yucatan Peninsula and emerged over the south central Gulf of Mexico on July 4.
Read the full account →Hurricane Cindy developed from a tropical depression that formed over the extreme western Caribbean Sea on July 3. This depression moved northwest over the Yucatan Peninsula and emerged over the south central Gulf of Mexico on July 4.
Read the full account →Hurricane Cindy developed from a tropical depression that formed over the extreme western Caribbean Sea on July 3. This depression moved northwest over the Yucatan Peninsula and emerged over the south central Gulf of Mexico on July 4.
Read the full account →Hurricane Cindy developed from a tropical depression that formed over the extreme western Caribbean Sea on July 3. This depression moved northwest over the Yucatan Peninsula and emerged over the south central Gulf of Mexico on July 4.
Read the full account →Hurricane Cindy developed from a tropical depression that formed over the extreme western Caribbean Sea on July 3. This depression moved northwest over the Yucatan Peninsula and emerged over the south central Gulf of Mexico on July 4.
Read the full account →Hurricane Cindy developed from a tropical depression that formed over the extreme western Caribbean Sea on July 3. This depression moved northwest over the Yucatan Peninsula and emerged over the south central Gulf of Mexico on July 4.
Read the full account →Hurricane Rita made landfall around 230 am on September 24th in Cameron Parish near Johnson Bayou as a category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 120 mph. Wind gusts over 110 mph were recorded in Cameron and Calcasieu Parishes.
Read the full account →Hurricane Gustav moved northwestward into the southeast Louisiana coast during the early morning hours of September 1st. The storm continued a steady northwestward motion into east central Louisiana and northwest Louisiana during the evening hours of September 1st.
Read the full account →Hurricane Gustav moved northwestward into the southeast Louisiana coast during the early morning hours of September 1st. The storm continued a steady northwestward motion into east central Louisiana and northwest Louisiana during the evening hours of September 1st.
Read the full account →Hurricane Ike came onshore across extreme southeast Texas during the late night hours of September 12th and the pre-dawn hours of September 13th.
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