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Up to sixteen hours of intense rain and thunderstorms flood at least 40 buildings and structures in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. September 4, 2011 – Tropical Storm Lee – A state of emergency is declared for New Orleans ahead of Lee, with the threat of the storm prompting the preparation of rescue boats across the city and city officials ...
The Flood of 2011 set new record stages at Vicksburg and Natchez. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] The peak streamflow at Vicksburg, 2,310,000 cubic feet per second (65,000 m 3 /s), exceeded both the estimated peak streamflow of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 , 2,278,000 cu ft/s (64,500 m 3 /s), and the measured peak streamflow of the 1937 flood, 2,080,000 ...
2011 Mississippi River floods - Severe flooding across the Mississippi River Valley affected Louisiana 2015 Louisiana floods - The Red River reached record levels, resulting in flooding 2016 Louisiana floods - Prolonged rainfall across South Louisiana caused catastrophic flooding resulting in over 146,000 flooded homes and 13 deaths
Storm surge begins to flood the docks of Campo’s Marina just before Hurricane Francine made landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast in Louisiana on September 11, 2024. REUTERS/Edmund Fountain
Concordia Parish, Louisiana is in the foreground, on the right, and Wilkinson County, Mississippi, is in the background, across the Mississippi on the left. Old River low-sill control structure discharging water into the Atchafalaya, May 2011. The Old River Control Structure is a floodgate system in a branch of the Mississippi River in central ...
In late August 2011, much of the western Caribbean came under the influence of abundant tropical moisture. [6] Combined with favorable upper diffluence, the moisture allowed for a perpetual area of disturbed weather to form; this, in return, contributed to the genesis of a weak tropical wave, or an elongated low-pressure feature at the lower levels of the atmosphere. [7]
In Louisiana, a flood watch is in effect for New Orleans through 6 p.m. local time Thursday. The same alert is in effect for Jackson, Mississippi, through 6 p.m. local time Thursday while ...
In Louisiana, storm surge from Lake Pontchartrain flooded more than 150 homes in Jefferson and St. Tammany parishes. Freshwater flooding also occurred in low-lying areas of southeastern Louisiana and southern and central Mississippi due to 10–15 in (250–380 mm) of rainfall across the area.