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River Flood Warning 83, NWS New Orleans, LA

December 13, 2009Saint Helena Parish, Louisiana

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this river flood warning at Dec 13, 2009, 9:42 AM CST for Saint Helena Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 23 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 13, 2009, 9:42 AM CST (15:42 UTC)
Expired: Dec 14, 2009, 8:51 AM CST
In force: 23 hr
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Flood severity: Minor

County Saint Helena Parish, LA

The river

Written for the forecast point Tickfaw River at Liverpool (LPOL1).

Action stage: 9 ft
Minor stage: 9 ft
Moderate stage: 11 ft
Major stage: 12 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 07375800, 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 Dec 13, 7:32 AM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 7:32 AM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 13, 7:13 AM CST, 2 hours 29 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
Dec 12, 6:43 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Lafourche, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles	3 hr
Dec 12, 7:06 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	11 days
Dec 12, 7:41 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Lafourche, Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist, Terrebonne	2 hr
Dec 12, 7:46 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	6 hr
Dec 12, 7:48 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LIX		57 min
Dec 12, 9:15 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	LIX		90 min
Dec 12, 9:20 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LIX	Tangipahoa	9 days
Dec 12, 9:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard	52 min
Dec 12, 10:00 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Jefferson, Lafourche, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles, Saint John the Baptist and 1 more	3 hr
Dec 12, 11:32 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	3 days
Dec 13, 3:49 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LIX	Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, Saint Bernard and 6 more	5 hr
Dec 13, 8:36 AM CST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	LIX		3 hr
Dec 13, 9:42 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LIX	Livingston	25 hr
Dec 13, 2:24 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	4 days
Dec 13, 3:20 PM CST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	LIX		51 hr
Dec 13, 3:49 PM CST	Flash Flood Watch	LIX	Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, Saint Bernard and 6 more	50 hr
Dec 13, 3:49 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	LIX	Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, Saint Bernard and 6 more	17 hr
Dec 12, 7:06 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LIX	Pike, Walthall	20 hr
Dec 12, 7:53 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Jackson	112 min
Dec 12, 8:09 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LIX	Harrison	8 days
Dec 12, 8:12 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LIX	Harrison	8 days
Dec 12, 8:17 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LIX	Harrison	49 hr
Dec 12, 9:46 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Jackson	4 hr
Dec 12, 11:35 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LIX	Pearl River	33 hr
Dec 13, 9:14 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LIX	Jackson	15 days

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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.