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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 · 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

Red River, 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

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

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

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

Union, 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

Jefferson, 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

Jefferson, 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

East Baton Rouge, LA · Jan 29, 2023

A surface pressure trough, which later turned into a stationary front, situated over the Gulf of Mexico slowly crept northward until it reached the I-12 corridor near Baton Rouge.

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Storm Surge/Tide$10K damage

Upper St. Bernard, LA · Sep 2, 2011

The circulation around Tropical Storm Lee affected southeast Louisiana from late on September 2nd through September 4 with primarily onshore southeast and south wind flow.

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Tropical Storm$10K damage

Lower Lafourche, LA · Sep 2, 2011

Tropical Storm Lee initially developed as Tropical Depression Thirteen in middle Gulf of Mexico on Thursday evening September 1st. The depression moved slowly north and gradually strengthened, eventually reaching tropical storm strength just south of Louisiana coast on Friday…

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Tropical Storm$10K damage

Northern Tangipahoa, LA · Sep 2, 2011

Tropical Storm Lee initially developed as Tropical Depression Thirteen in middle Gulf of Mexico on Thursday evening September 1st. The depression moved slowly north and gradually strengthened, eventually reaching tropical storm strength just south of Louisiana coast on Friday…

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Tropical Storm$10K damage

St. Charles, LA · Sep 2, 2011

Tropical Storm Lee initially developed as Tropical Depression Thirteen in middle Gulf of Mexico on Thursday evening September 1st. The depression moved slowly north and gradually strengthened, eventually reaching tropical storm strength just south of Louisiana coast on Friday…

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Tropical Storm$10K damage

St. James, LA · Sep 2, 2011

Tropical Storm Lee initially developed as Tropical Depression Thirteen in middle Gulf of Mexico on Thursday evening September 1st. The depression moved slowly north and gradually strengthened, eventually reaching tropical storm strength just south of Louisiana coast on Friday…

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Tropical Storm$10K damage

Vernon, LA · Sep 3, 2011

Tropical Storm Lee made landfall south of Intracoastal City in Vermilion Parish on September 4th. No deaths or injuries were reported. Storm total rainfall ranged from 3 to 10 inches, with the highest amounts recorded in central Louisiana (a co-op station near Alexandria…

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Tropical Storm$10K damage

Assumption, LA · Sep 2, 2011

Tropical Storm Lee initially developed as Tropical Depression Thirteen in middle Gulf of Mexico on Thursday evening September 1st. The depression moved slowly north and gradually strengthened, eventually reaching tropical storm strength just south of Louisiana coast on Friday…

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Tropical Storm$10K damage

East Baton Rouge, LA · Sep 2, 2011

Tropical Storm Lee initially developed as Tropical Depression Thirteen in middle Gulf of Mexico on Thursday evening September 1st. The depression moved slowly north and gradually strengthened, eventually reaching tropical storm strength just south of Louisiana coast on Friday…

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Tropical Storm$10K damage

Upper Lafourche, LA · Sep 2, 2011

Tropical Storm Lee initially developed as Tropical Depression Thirteen in middle Gulf of Mexico on Thursday evening September 1st. The depression moved slowly north and gradually strengthened, eventually reaching tropical storm strength just south of Louisiana coast on Friday…

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Tropical Storm$10K damage

Upper Terrebonne, LA · Sep 2, 2011

Tropical Storm Lee initially developed as Tropical Depression Thirteen in middle Gulf of Mexico on Thursday evening September 1st. The depression moved slowly north and gradually strengthened, eventually reaching tropical storm strength just south of Louisiana coast on Friday…

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Tropical Storm$10K damage

Washington, LA · Sep 2, 2011

Tropical Storm Lee initially developed as Tropical Depression Thirteen in middle Gulf of Mexico on Thursday evening September 1st. The depression moved slowly north and gradually strengthened, eventually reaching tropical storm strength just south of Louisiana coast on Friday…

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