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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS New Orleans, LA
NWS New Orleans, LA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 11, 2016, 12:08 PM CST for Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana. It was in force for 8 hr. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 11, 2016, 12:08 PM CST (18:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2016, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New Orleans, LA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Emergency
- Flash flood emergency
- Flood severity
- None
County Saint Tammany Parish, LA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 1:30 PM CST | FLOOD | 6 Nw Madisonville, LA | WATER LEAVING THE BANKS OF BEDICO CREEK AND APPROXIMATELY 1 TO 1.5 FEET FROM ENCRAOCHING ON I-12. |
| Mar 11, 1:40 PM CST | FLOOD | 9 N Madisonville, LA | UP TO AT LEAST 3 FEET OF WATER COVERING THE ROADS AT THE LAKE RAMSAY COMMUNITY. WATER STILL RISING. |
| Mar 11, 3:15 PM CST | FLOOD | 5 Nw Covington, LA | LOUISIANA HIGHWAY 25 REPORTED FLOODED BETWEEN LAKE RAMSEY ROAD AND MILLION DOLLAR ROAD. |
| Mar 11, 3:40 PM CST | FLOOD | Covington, LA | HWY 437 NORTH OF RIVER ROAD CLOSED DUE TO RIVER FLOODING ON THE BOGUE FALAYA. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 48 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1067 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 479 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 10.4
The text
As transmitted.
783
WGUS54 KLIX 111808
FFWLIX
LAC103-120200-
/O.NEW.KLIX.FF.W.0013.160311T1808Z-160312T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1208 PM CST FRI MAR 11 2016
...FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR WESTERN ST. TAMMANY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN ST. TAMMANY PARISH IN SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA...
* UNTIL 800 PM CST FRIDAY
* AT 1205 PM CST...GAUGE REPORTS ABOVE RECORD STAGE ON BOGUE FALAYA
AT CAMP COVINGTON AND BOSTON STREET. RESIDUAL FLOODING REMAINS
ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.
THIS IS A FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR RESIDENTS AND POINTS ALONG
SEVERAL RIVERS INCLUDING BOGUE FALAYA AT CAMP COVINGTON AND BOSTON
STREET.
* FLOOD WATERS ARE MOVING DOWN THE BOGUE FALAYA RIVER. THE FLOOD
CREST IS EXPECTED TO REACH 62.5 CAMP COVINGTON FEET THIS AFTEROON.
FLOOD WATERS ARE MOVING DOWN THE BOGUE FALAYA RIVER. THE FLOOD
CREST IS EXPECTED TO REACH 19 FEET AT BOSTON STREET THIS AFTEROON.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
COVINGTON...ABITA SPRINGS...MADISONVILLE AND FOLSOM.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE
THREATENING SITUATION. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL UNLESS YOU ARE
FLEEING AN AREA SUBJECT TO FLOODING OR UNDER AN EVACUATION ORDER.
&&
LAT...LON 3066 8997 3030 8999 3032 9001 3032 9004
3035 9006 3037 9010 3039 9020 3037 9024
3060 9024 3061 9025 3065 9024 3071 9026
$$1 follow-up statement
943
WGUS74 KLIX 112028
FFSLIX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
228 PM CST FRI MAR 11 2016
LAC103-120200-
/O.CON.KLIX.FF.W.0013.000000T0000Z-160312T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
ST. TAMMANY LA-
228 PM CST FRI MAR 11 2016
...THIS IS A FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR WESTERN ST. TAMMANY PARISH...
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST FRIDAY
FOR WESTERN ST. TAMMANY PARISH...
AT 210 PM CST...RADAR ESTIMATED A SWATH OF 10 TO 15 INCHES OF RAIN HAD
FALLEN ACROSS NORTHWEST ST. TAMMANY PARISH TODAY. MANY RIVER POINTS
ARE EXPERIENCING MODERATE TO MAJOR FLOODING. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF HAS CREATED
HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS AROUND AND NEAR MOST RIVERS ACROSS WESTERN ST. TAMMANY
PARISH...ESPECIALLY ALONG BOGUE FALAYA RIVER JUST SOUTHEAST OF FOLSOM
THROUGH COVINGTON.
THIS IS A FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR POINTS ALONG BOGUE FALAYA RIVER.
SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW!
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
COVINGTON...ABITA SPRINGS...MADISONVILLE AND FOLSOM.
FLOOD WATERS ARE MOVING DOWN THE BOGUE FALAYA RIVER. THE FLOOD
CREST IS EXPECTED TO REACH 62.5 CAMP COVINGTON FEET THIS AFTEROON.
THE FLOOD CREST IS EXPECTED TO REACH 19 FEET AT BOSTON STREET
TOMORROW MORNING.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE
THREATENING SITUATION. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL UNLESS YOU ARE
FLEEING AN AREA SUBJECT TO FLOODING OR UNDER AN EVACUATION ORDER.
TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3066 8997 3030 8999 3032 9001 3032 9004
3035 9006 3037 9010 3039 9020 3037 9024
3060 9024 3061 9025 3065 9024 3071 9026
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS New Orleans, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 7:12 PM CST | River Flood Warning | LIX | Ascension, Livingston | 6 days |
| Mar 10, 7:12 PM CST | River Flood Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 50 hr |
| Mar 10, 7:12 PM CST | River Flood Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 68 hr |
| Mar 10, 7:56 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Ascension, Assumption, Livingston, Saint Helena, Saint James, Saint Tammany and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 10, 9:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 11, 1:24 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Livingston, Saint Helena, Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 1:50 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 2 hr |
| Mar 11, 2:13 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LIX | Washington | 4 days |
| Mar 11, 2:21 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 114 min | |
| Mar 11, 3:13 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 62 min | |
| Mar 11, 3:33 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Assumption, Lafourche, Saint James, Terrebonne | 57 min |
| Mar 11, 4:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Assumption, Lafourche, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist, Terrebonne | 24 min |
| Mar 11, 4:12 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Washington | 4 hr |
| Mar 11, 4:16 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Livingston, Tangipahoa | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 4:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Ascension, Jefferson, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans, Plaquemines and 5 more | 32 min |
| Mar 11, 4:31 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 59 min | |
| Mar 11, 4:48 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 42 min | |
| Mar 11, 4:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Livingston, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles and 3 more | 33 min |
| Mar 11, 5:04 AM CST | Coastal Flood Warning | LIX | Saint John the Baptist | 49 hr |
| Mar 11, 5:08 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 67 min | |
| Mar 11, 5:15 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | LIX | Plaquemines | 45 min |
| Mar 11, 5:18 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 42 min | |
| Mar 11, 5:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington | 39 min |
| Mar 11, 5:50 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LIX | Tangipahoa | 50 hr |
| Mar 11, 6:04 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | LIX | 56 min | |
| Mar 11, 6:30 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LIX | Ascension, Livingston | 7 days |
| Mar 11, 7:22 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany, Tangipahoa, Washington | 13 hr |
| Mar 11, 7:37 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LIX | Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Livingston | 9 hr |
| Mar 11, 7:58 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 8:53 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LIX | East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Saint Helena | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 12:01 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 8 hr |
| Mar 11, 4:29 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | LIX | Livingston | 3 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.