Flash Flood, Rapides
- When
- August 6, 6:00 PM CST to 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Rapides County, Alexandria
- Property damage
- $150,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 31.199, -92.533 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Louisiana, August 6, 1998
Heavy rain produced over two inches of rain in less than 30 minutes, resulting in flash flooding in Alexandria and Pineville. Many streets were entirely flooded, and several vehicles had water as high as car windows.
Where it happened
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- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $150,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS LCH wrote it up.
Heavy rain produced over two inches of rain in less than 30 minutes, resulting in flash flooding in Alexandria and Pineville. Many streets were entirely flooded, and several vehicles had water as high as car windows. Several underpasses in Alexandria and Pineville quickly flooded, trapping some people in cars and trucks, but no injuries were reported.
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 42 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:02 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding in Wisconsin, August 6 to 7, 1998
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, August 6, 1998
- Heat in Texas, August 6, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Michigan, August 6, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Arizona, August 6 to 31, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, August 6, 1998
- Tornado in Florida, August 6, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, August 6, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Mississippi, August 6, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Texas, August 6, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, August 6, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, August 6, 1998
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5663768.