Flash Flood in Louisiana, June 6, 2005

Name: Flash Flood in Louisiana, June 6, 2005
Start: 2005-06-06T19:55
End: 2005-06-06T22:00
Location: Louisiana

June 6, 2005 · NWS LCH · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Several homes had at least a foot of water in them after slow moving thunderstorms dropped over four inches of rain in less than two hours.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $50,000
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.

Several homes had at least a foot of water in them after slow moving thunderstorms dropped over four inches of rain in less than two hours.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Lake Charles, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 6, 1:53 PM CST, 6 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 1:53 PM CST, 6 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
253 PM CDT MON JUN 6 2005

.DISCUSSION...SEABREEZE ACTIVITY GOT STARTED EARLY THIS MORNING IN RESPONSE
TO VERY MOIST UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. TSTM ACTIVITY HAS PUSHED NWD AND NOW
GENERALLY IS ORIENTED FROM INTERIOR SE TX INTO SCNTRL LA WITH SOME SCT
ACTIVITY STILL OVER ACADIANA AS WELL. NO SEVERE WX EXPECTED WITH THESE
TSTMS...HOWEVER THEY WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SOME VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. ACTIVITY SHOULD
DIE DOWN THIS EVENING WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. OVERNIGHT...NOT
REALLY LOOKING FOR TOO MUCH THOUGH THERE COULD BE SOME ACTIVITY ALONG
THE COAST LATE TONIGHT AND INTO THE EARLY MORNING.

TOMORROW LOOKS TO BE ABOUT THE SAME TODAY WITH JUST A BIT MORE AREAL
COVERAGE EXPECTED. TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL REMAIN IN PLACE AND A
WEAK SHORTWAVE MOVING UP FROM S TX WILL HELP INITIATE MORE ACTIVITY ALONG
WITH THE SEABREEZE ACTIVITY. AGAIN COULD SEE SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL
AS THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SLOW MOVING. BY WEDNESDAY...DEEPEST
MOISTURE STARTS TO MOVE ON THE EAST BUT SHOULD BE ENOUGH RESIDUAL
MOISTURE OVER ERN ZONES TO SEE A DECENT CHANCE OF TSTMS WITH DECREASING
CHANCES TO THE WEST OVER SE TX. WILL ALSO GO RATHER LOWISH ON POPS
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AS WELL DUE TO DRIER ATMOSPHERE AND NO DISTURBANCES
SEEN HEADED THIS WAY. DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE STARTS TO RETURN FOR THE
WEEKEND SO CHANCE OF POPS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE...BUT WILL NOT HIT
TOO HARD JUST YET.

&&

.AVIATION...SEABREEZE HAS MOVED THRU KBPT AND KLCH SO TSTMS NOT EXPECTED
THIS EVENING OR OVERNIGHT. TSTMS STILL A GOOD BET ACROSS KLFT AND KAEX
THIS EVENING. LOOK FOR A REPEAT TOMORROW WITH SEABREEZE TSTM ACTIVITY
DEVELOPING MID-MORNING AND MOVING INLAND THRU THE AFTERNOON.

&&

.MARINE...HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO RIDGE ACROSS THE COASTAL WATERS
PRODUCING A SOUTHERLY FLOW OVER THE COASTAL WATERS WITH SLIGHTLY HIGHER
WIND SPEEDS AND SEAS LATE NIGHT.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
KLCH  76  89  76  87 /  20  50  20  40
KBPT  75  89  75  91 /  20  50  20  40
KAEX  72  91  72  90 /  20  50  20  50
KLFT  73  89  73  90 /  20  50  20  50

&&

.LCH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
LA...NONE.
TX...NONE.

&&

WILEY

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 6, 3:53 AM CST, 16 hours 2 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
453 AM CDT MON JUN 6 2005

GMZ450-455-470-475-LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-
071100-
ACADIA-ALLEN-AVOYELLES-BEAUREGARD-CALCASIEU-CAMERON-EVANGELINE-
HARDIN-IBERIA-JASPER-JEFFERSON-JEFFERSON DAVIS-LAFAYETTE-
LOWER ST. MARTIN-NEWTON-ORANGE-RAPIDES-ST. LANDRY-ST. MARY-TYLER-
UPPER ST. MARTIN-VERMILION-VERNON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WOODVILLE...PORT ARTHUR...ORANGE...
NEWTON...KOUNTZE...JASPER...BEAUMONT...OBERLIN...ABBEVILLE...
VILLE PLATTE...OPELOUSAS...NEW IBERIA...MORGAN CITY...MARKSVILLE...
LEESVILLE...LAKE CHARLES...LAFAYETTE...JENNINGS...DERIDDER...
CROWLEY...CAMERON AND ALEXANDRIA

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

RICH GULF MOISTURE AND DAYTIME HEATING WILL PROVIDE SCATTERED SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA...ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON
HOURS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE
WITH A FEW OF THE STORMS. HOWEVER...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH WEDNESDAY.
RAIN CHANCES WILL DECREASE TO THE ISOLATED RANGE ON THURSDAY INTO THE
WEEKEND. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS, HAM RADIO OPERATORS, AND EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...
WILL NOT BE REQUIRED TODAY.

RUA

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 6, 3:20 PM CST, 4 hours 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
420 PM CDT MON JUN 06 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0417 PM     TSTM WND DMG     LEESVILLE               31.14N 93.27W
06/06/2005                   VERNON             LA   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            SEVERAL TREES BLOWN DOWN IN THE CITY OF LEESVILLE.
            REPORTED BY VERNON PARISH SHERIFF OFFICE.

&&

SHAMBURGER

Local storm report, Jun 6, 4:23 PM CST, 3 hours 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
523 PM CDT MON JUN 06 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0412 PM     TSTM WND DMG     UNION HILL              30.99N 92.73W
06/06/2005                   RAPIDES            LA   PUBLIC

            TREE DOWN ACROSS PORTION OF HIGHWAY 112 NEAR UNION HILL.
            REPORTED VIA RAPIDES PARISH 911 CENTER.

0415 PM     TSTM WND DMG     4 NNW GLENMORA          31.03N 92.61W
06/06/2005                   RAPIDES            LA   PUBLIC

            TREE DOWN ON BOY SCOUT ROAD AT GUILLORY LOOP. REPORTED
            VIA RAPIDES PARISH 911 CENTER.

&&

SHAMBURGER

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 82 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:54 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Acadia

When: June 6, 7:55 PM CST to 10:00 PM CST
Where: Acadia County, Crowley
Property damage: $50,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 30.217, -92.367

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

Every storm in Louisiana in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in Louisiana, June 2005

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: 5460593.