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River Flood Warning 3, NWS New Orleans, LA

February 13, 2025Washington Parish, Louisiana; Pearl River County, Mississippi

NWS New Orleans, LA issued this river flood warning at Feb 13, 2025, 11:37 AM CST for Washington Parish, Louisiana; Pearl River County, Mississippi. It took effect at Feb 15, 2025, 2:00 AM CST. It was in force for 16 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 13, 2025, 11:37 AM CST (17:37 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 15, 2025, 2:00 AM CST
Expired: Mar 3, 2025, 12:04 PM CST
In force: 16 days
Issued by: NWS New Orleans, LA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

Counties Washington Parish, LA, Pearl River County, MS

The radar

The Hammond radar (KHDC), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Pearl River near Bogalusa (BXAL1). The gauge peaked at 20.63 ft at Feb 21, 2025, 2:00 PM CST.

Action stage: 16 ft
Minor stage: 18 ft
Moderate stage: 21 ft
Major stage: 23 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02489500, 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 Feb 12, 5:27 PM CST, 18 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 12, 5:27 PM CST, 18 hours 10 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
Feb 12, 7:13 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LIX	Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, Saint James, Saint John the Baptist and 1 more	45 days
Feb 13, 12:26 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LIX		44 days
Feb 13, 3:17 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	LIX		44 days
Feb 13, 11:37 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LIX	Saint Tammany	39 days

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Louisiana, 2025 River Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2025 Every river flood warning in 2025

Sources

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