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Louisiana Flood Stories

2,076 first-hand accounts of flood events in Louisiana, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Flash Flood

De Soto, LA · Jan 2, 2023

A vigorous upper level trough traversed east through the Desert Southwest and into the Southern Rockies January 1st, before ejecting northeast across the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles into Western Kansas on the 2nd.

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Flash Flood

Ouachita, LA · Jan 2, 2023

A vigorous upper level trough traversed east through the Desert Southwest and into the Southern Rockies January 1st, before ejecting northeast across the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles into Western Kansas on the 2nd.

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Flash Flood

Bossier, LA · Jan 2, 2023

A vigorous upper level trough traversed east through the Desert Southwest and into the Southern Rockies January 1st, before ejecting northeast across the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles into Western Kansas on the 2nd.

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Flash Flood

Natchitoches, LA · Jan 2, 2023

A vigorous upper level trough traversed east through the Desert Southwest and into the Southern Rockies January 1st, before ejecting northeast across the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles into Western Kansas on the 2nd.

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Flash Flood

Red River, LA · Jan 2, 2023

A vigorous upper level trough traversed east through the Desert Southwest and into the Southern Rockies January 1st, before ejecting northeast across the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles into Western Kansas on the 2nd.

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Flash Flood

Ouachita, LA · Jan 2, 2023

A vigorous upper level trough traversed east through the Desert Southwest and into the Southern Rockies January 1st, before ejecting northeast across the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles into Western Kansas on the 2nd.

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Flash Flood

Bossier, LA · Apr 6, 2023

A slow moving cold front drifted south across East Texas and North Louisiana south of the Interstate 20 corridor during the morning hours of April 6th.

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Flash Flood

Bossier, LA · Apr 6, 2023

A slow moving cold front drifted south across East Texas and North Louisiana south of the Interstate 20 corridor during the morning hours of April 6th.

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Flash Flood

De Soto, LA · Apr 6, 2023

A slow moving cold front drifted south across East Texas and North Louisiana south of the Interstate 20 corridor during the morning hours of April 6th.

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Flash Flood

Caddo, LA · Jun 3, 2023

Thunderstorms began to develop during the afternoon of June 3rd across parts of East and Northeast Texas, extending eastward into portions of Northwest Louisiana.

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Flash Flood

Caddo, LA · Jun 3, 2023

Thunderstorms began to develop during the afternoon of June 3rd across parts of East and Northeast Texas, extending eastward into portions of Northwest Louisiana.

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Flash Flood

Caddo, LA · Jun 3, 2023

Thunderstorms began to develop during the afternoon of June 3rd across parts of East and Northeast Texas, extending eastward into portions of Northwest Louisiana.

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Flash Flood

Caddo, LA · Jun 3, 2023

Thunderstorms began to develop during the afternoon of June 3rd across parts of East and Northeast Texas, extending eastward into portions of Northwest Louisiana.

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Flash Flood

Bossier, LA · Jun 3, 2023

Thunderstorms began to develop during the afternoon of June 3rd across parts of East and Northeast Texas, extending eastward into portions of Northwest Louisiana.

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Flash Flood

Bossier, LA · Jun 3, 2023

Thunderstorms began to develop during the afternoon of June 3rd across parts of East and Northeast Texas, extending eastward into portions of Northwest Louisiana.

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Flash Flood

Caddo, LA · Jun 3, 2023

Thunderstorms began to develop during the afternoon of June 3rd across parts of East and Northeast Texas, extending eastward into portions of Northwest Louisiana.

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Flash Flood

Caddo, LA · Jun 3, 2023

Thunderstorms began to develop during the afternoon of June 3rd across parts of East and Northeast Texas, extending eastward into portions of Northwest Louisiana.

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Flash Flood

Jefferson, LA · Feb 8, 2023

A surface low and frontal boundary stalled over northeast Texas on the afternoon of February 7th. An upper level low coming out of the desert southwest tracked eastward and drove a cold front towards the local area.

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Flash Flood

Caddo, LA · Jul 6, 2023

A weak upper level trough extended southwest from the Great Lakes Region southwest into Southwest Arkansas and Northeast Texas during the afternoon of July 6th, which reinforced a weak surface front south into the I-30 corridor of Northeast Texas and Southern Arkansas.

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Flash Flood

Orleans, LA · May 9, 2023

A more typical summertime pattern was in place on May 9th as scattered showers and thunderstorms started to develop during the late morning. With the help of colliding sea-breeze and lake-breeze boundaries over New Orleans, a thunderstorm developed over the city in the late…

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Flash Flood

Orleans, LA · May 9, 2023

A more typical summertime pattern was in place on May 9th as scattered showers and thunderstorms started to develop during the late morning. With the help of colliding sea-breeze and lake-breeze boundaries over New Orleans, a thunderstorm developed over the city in the late…

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Flash Flood

Claiborne, LA · Jul 12, 2023

A Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) that was a remnant of showers and thunderstorms over Central Oklahoma on July 11th, drifted east into Southwest Arkansas during the early morning hours of the 12th.

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Flash Flood

Caddo, LA · May 11, 2023

An upper level low pressure system slowly ejected northeast across the piney woods of East Texas during the evening through the morning hours of May 10th-11th.

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Flash Flood

De Soto, LA · May 11, 2023

An upper level low pressure system slowly ejected northeast across the piney woods of East Texas during the evening through the morning hours of May 10th-11th.

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