2,076 first-hand accounts of flood events in Louisiana, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Thunderstorms dumped up to twelve inches of rain during the afternoon and evening hours in sections of Jefferson, St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, and St. James Parishes. The hardest hit area was Norco in St. Charles Parish where 110 homes and businesses flooded.
Read the full account →Hurricane Humberto made landfall in southeast Texas, and moved into southwest Louisiana the morning of 9/13/07. Humberto was weakening to a tropical storm as it moved northeast across southwest Louisiana.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of storms evolved over the region starting late on the 14th and lasted through the 15th. This produced several areas of heavy rainfall across the forecast area.
Read the full account →A round of severe thunderstorms containing tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds, occurred Tuesday December 9th into Tuesday night across much of the Lower Mississippi River Valley.
Read the full account →Hurricane Gustav caused wind damage, flash flooding, and several tornadoes across southwest Louisiana.||Hustav made landfall in Terrebonne Parish in the morning of September 2nd as a category 2 hurricane with sustained winds of 110 mph.||Gustav moved northwest, almost up along…
Read the full account →A strong upper level storm system moved its way out of the southern Great Basin and into the Southern Plains during the afternoon hours of December 23rd.
Read the full account →Widespread showers and thunderstorms developed along and ahead of a strong cold front as a powerful upper level storm system plowed into the southern plains during the afternoon hours of October 29th.
Read the full account →Hurricane Humberto made landfall in southeast Texas, and moved into southwest Louisiana the morning of 9/13/07. Humberto was weakening to a tropical storm as it moved northeast across southwest Louisiana.
Read the full account →Francine originated from a tropical wave that emerged off the West coast of Africa on August 28th. The wave traversed the tropical Atlantic Ocean with minimal organization, reaching the Leeward Islands by September 1st.
Read the full account →Francine originated from a tropical wave that emerged off the West coast of Africa on August 28th. The wave traversed the tropical Atlantic Ocean with minimal organization, reaching the Leeward Islands by September 1st.
Read the full account →A vigorous upper level trough closed off across the Southwest United States leading up to the outbreak of severe storms and flash flooding across Northwest Louisiana during the late morning hours of March 20th and continuing into the morning hours of March 21st.
Read the full account →Hurricane Issac made landfall in Southeast sections of Louisiana, however tropical storm conditions were felt well to the west of the center. No injuries or deaths were reported. Scattered power outages and downed trees occurred.
Read the full account →Moisture rich air with near record precipitable water, for this time of year, surged north from the Gulf of Mexico across the local area as a warm front lifted northward.
Read the full account →Moisture rich air with near record precipitable water, for this time of year, surged north from the Gulf of Mexico across the local area as a warm front lifted northward.
Read the full account →Moisture rich air with near record precipitable water, for this time of year, surged north from the Gulf of Mexico across the local area as a warm front lifted northward.
Read the full account →Moisture rich air with near record precipitable water, for this time of year, surged north from the Gulf of Mexico across the local area as a warm front lifted northward.
Read the full account →For the second time in January, near record atmospheric levels of moisture, for January, was in place across southern Mississippi and southeast Louisiana.
Read the full account →For the second time in January, near record atmospheric levels of moisture, for January, was in place across southern Mississippi and southeast Louisiana.
Read the full account →For the second time in January, near record atmospheric levels of moisture, for January, was in place across southern Mississippi and southeast Louisiana.
Read the full account →For the second time in January, near record atmospheric levels of moisture, for January, was in place across southern Mississippi and southeast Louisiana.
Read the full account →For the second time in January, near record atmospheric levels of moisture, for January, was in place across southern Mississippi and southeast Louisiana.
Read the full account →For the second time in January, near record atmospheric levels of moisture, for January, was in place across southern Mississippi and southeast Louisiana.
Read the full account →For the second time in January, near record atmospheric levels of moisture, for January, was in place across southern Mississippi and southeast Louisiana.
Read the full account →For the second time in January, near record atmospheric levels of moisture, for January, was in place across southern Mississippi and southeast Louisiana.
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