Louisiana, 2025

Flash Flood in Louisiana, June 13, 2025

June 13, 2025 · NWS LIX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A mesoscale convective system developed in the morning across southeast Louisiana as a weak upper level system passed overhead. A deep cold pool aided in a quick progression east across the area but back building of convection overwhelmed drainage systems in New Orleans.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
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 LIX wrote it up.

A mesoscale convective system developed in the morning across southeast Louisiana as a weak upper level system passed overhead. A deep cold pool aided in a quick progression east across the area but back building of convection overwhelmed drainage systems in New Orleans.

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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 12, 5:24 PM CST, 17 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 5:24 PM CST, 17 hours 31 minutes before
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The radar

The Hammond radar (KHDC), 68 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:54 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Orleans

When
June 13, 10:55 AM CST to 1:00 PM CST
Where
Orleans County, 0.6 mi W of Vieux Carre to 0.62 mi W of Vieux Carre
Cause
Heavy Rain
Reported by
NWS Employee
Coordinates
29.970, -90.090

Report of street flooding at the Canal St underpass and Broad Street from heavy thunderstorms.

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

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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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1278338.