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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

St. Tammany, LA · Sep 4, 2023

Fueled by an abundance of moisture, a thunderstorm complex developed during peak heating over the Pearl River basin. Aided by a very weak steering flow, the complex moved very slowly over portions of urbanized areas such as Slidell and eventually metro New Orleans, where flash…

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Flash Flood

Orleans, LA · Sep 4, 2023

Fueled by an abundance of moisture, a thunderstorm complex developed during peak heating over the Pearl River basin. Aided by a very weak steering flow, the complex moved very slowly over portions of urbanized areas such as Slidell and eventually metro New Orleans, where flash…

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Flash Flood

Orleans, LA · Sep 4, 2023

Fueled by an abundance of moisture, a thunderstorm complex developed during peak heating over the Pearl River basin. Aided by a very weak steering flow, the complex moved very slowly over portions of urbanized areas such as Slidell and eventually metro New Orleans, where flash…

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Flash Flood

Orleans, LA · Sep 4, 2023

Fueled by an abundance of moisture, a thunderstorm complex developed during peak heating over the Pearl River basin. Aided by a very weak steering flow, the complex moved very slowly over portions of urbanized areas such as Slidell and eventually metro New Orleans, where flash…

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Flash Flood

Orleans, LA · Sep 4, 2023

Fueled by an abundance of moisture, a thunderstorm complex developed during peak heating over the Pearl River basin. Aided by a very weak steering flow, the complex moved very slowly over portions of urbanized areas such as Slidell and eventually metro New Orleans, where flash…

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Flash Flood

Orleans, LA · Sep 4, 2023

Fueled by an abundance of moisture, a thunderstorm complex developed during peak heating over the Pearl River basin. Aided by a very weak steering flow, the complex moved very slowly over portions of urbanized areas such as Slidell and eventually metro New Orleans, where flash…

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Flash Flood

St. James, LA · Apr 25, 2004

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.

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Flash Flood

Caddo, LA · Oct 29, 2009

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.

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Flash Flood

St. Mary, LA · Oct 22, 2009

A line of strong to severe thunderstorms developed along a cold front and moved eastward across southwest Louisiana during the late morning and afternoon hours.

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Flash Flood

Jefferson Davis, LA · Oct 22, 2009

A line of strong to severe thunderstorms developed along a cold front and moved eastward across southwest Louisiana during the late morning and afternoon hours.

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Flood

Avoyelles, LA · Dec 24, 2009

A powerful upper level storm system moved across the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley from Wednesday, December 23, 2009, through Thursday, December 24, 2009.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)

St. John The Baptist, LA · Sep 15, 2004

Hurricane Ivan moved steadily northward across the north central Gulf of Mexico on September 15th before turning north-northeast and making landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane during the early morning of September 16th.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)

Upper Lafourche, LA · Sep 15, 2004

Hurricane Ivan moved steadily northward across the north central Gulf of Mexico on September 15th before turning north-northeast and making landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane during the early morning of September 16th.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)

Upper Terrebonne, LA · Sep 15, 2004

Hurricane Ivan moved steadily northward across the north central Gulf of Mexico on September 15th before turning north-northeast and making landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane during the early morning of September 16th.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)

St. Charles, LA · Sep 15, 2004

Hurricane Ivan moved steadily northward across the north central Gulf of Mexico on September 15th before turning north-northeast and making landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane during the early morning of September 16th.

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Hurricane (Typhoon)

Lower Terrebonne, LA · Sep 15, 2004

Hurricane Ivan moved steadily northward across the north central Gulf of Mexico on September 15th before turning north-northeast and making landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane during the early morning of September 16th.

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Storm Surge/Tide

Lower Terrebonne, LA · Sep 22, 2004

The remnant circulation of Hurricane Ivan moved back into the Gulf of Mexico and regenerated into a tropical storm late on September 22nd. The weak tropical storm moved west to northwest and passed south of the southeast Louisiana coast before making landfall late on September…

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Storm Surge/Tide

Lower St. Bernard, LA · Oct 9, 2004

Tropical Storm Matthew developed from a tropical depression in the southwest Gulf of Mexico on October 8 and initially moved to the east northeast across the western and central Gulf of Mexico before gradually turning to the northeast and north.

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Storm Surge/Tide

Lower Lafourche, LA · Sep 22, 2004

The remnant circulation of Hurricane Ivan moved back into the Gulf of Mexico and regenerated into a tropical storm late on September 22nd. The weak tropical storm moved west to northwest and passed south of the southeast Louisiana coast before making landfall late on September…

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Storm Surge/Tide

St. John The Baptist, LA · Oct 9, 2004

Tropical Storm Matthew developed from a tropical depression in the southwest Gulf of Mexico on October 8 and initially moved to the east northeast across the western and central Gulf of Mexico before gradually turning to the northeast and north.

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Storm Surge/Tide

Lower Terrebonne, LA · Sep 15, 2004

Hurricane Ivan moved steadily northward across the north central Gulf of Mexico on September 15th before turning north-northeast and making landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane during the early morning of September 16th.

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Storm Surge/Tide

St. Charles, LA · Sep 15, 2004

Hurricane Ivan moved steadily northward across the north central Gulf of Mexico on September 15th before turning north-northeast and making landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane during the early morning of September 16th.

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Storm Surge/Tide

St. John The Baptist, LA · Sep 15, 2004

Hurricane Ivan moved steadily northward across the north central Gulf of Mexico on September 15th before turning north-northeast and making landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane during the early morning of September 16th.

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Storm Surge/Tide

Lower Jefferson, LA · Sep 22, 2004

The remnant circulation of Hurricane Ivan moved back into the Gulf of Mexico and regenerated into a tropical storm late on September 22nd. The weak tropical storm moved west to northwest and passed south of the southeast Louisiana coast before making landfall late on September…

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