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An updated flash flood warning was issued by the National Weather Service on Thursday at 12:05 p.m. "At 12:05 p.m., Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicated thunderstorms producing heavy ...
NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center has posted a Level 2 out of 4 flash flood risk for the central Gulf Coast on Monday, including New Orleans. Download The Free Fox Weather App
A storm system continuing on its trek across the nation has brought a renewed threat of flooding rain and severe weather later Thursday that has communities in the Ark-La-Tex region on alert.
In St. Tammany Parish, surface runoff from flash flooding causes some rivers to exceed flood stage. [16] Damage in Louisiana totaled to $150,000 (2002 USD, $260,000 2024 USD). September 5, 2002 – Tropical Storm Fay develops offshore the Louisiana coast before making landfall in Texas as a moderate tropical storm.
Rainfall in the state reached 14.82 in (376 mm) at the Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge in St. Tammany Parish. [47] The large size and intensity of Katrina pushed ashore a storm surge of 15 to 19 ft (4.6 to 5.8 m), inundating the southern coast of Lake Ponchartrain from New Orleans to St. Bernard Parish.
The prison experienced flooding ranging from 8 inches (200 mm) to 3 feet (0.91 m). [54] LCIW, the only state-operated prison to receive flooding during the incident, temporarily closed. [53] It was the first time in state history that the whole population of a particular prison was evacuated to other facilities. [55]
The weather service in New Orleans said during a 9 p.m. briefing that water was entering homes and businesses across St. Charles Parish, getting close to that in St. John the Baptist Parish, and ...
Search and rescue teams were deployed to search for those who were lost in flash floods, and crews used boats in Pebble Creek to do so. [57] [58] Near Tuscaloosa, a private dam failed and the subsequent flooding washed out a water and sewer main at Nucor Corp.'s steel plant. This in turn damaged the city's sewage system, prompting officials to ...