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River Flood Warning 51, NWS New Orleans, LA

October 5, 2009St. Mary Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this river flood warning at Oct 5, 2009, 9:45 AM CDT for St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. It took effect at Oct 5, 2009, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 5, 2009, 9:45 AM CDT (14:45 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 5, 2009, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired: Oct 6, 2009, 9:41 AM CDT
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Flood severity: Minor

County St. Mary Parish, LA

The river

Written for the forecast point Atchafalaya River at Morgan City (MCGL1).

Action stage: 4 ft
Minor stage: 6 ft
Moderate stage: 7 ft
Major stage: 12 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Oct 4, 3:43 PM CDT, 18 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 4, 3:43 PM CDT, 18 hours 2 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 4, 7:16 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		59 min
Oct 4, 7:20 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		55 min
Oct 4, 9:55 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LIX	St. Mary	7 hr
Oct 4, 11:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Iberville	118 min
Oct 5, 12:45 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Ascension, Assumption, Iberville	2 hr
Oct 5, 3:26 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Saint Tammany	2 hr
Oct 5, 3:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	92 min
Oct 5, 5:51 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		54 min
Oct 5, 7:58 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		62 min
Oct 5, 8:07 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	83 min
Oct 5, 10:26 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LIX		64 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.