Louisiana, 2025Flash 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.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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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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</html>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.
- 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.
- Wildfire in Utah, June 13 to 30, 2025$10 million · 1 event
- Wildfire in Washington, June 13 to 30, 2025$4.3 million · 1 event
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Louisiana, June 13 to 17, 2025$181,000 · 50 kt wind · 7 events
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 13, 2025$46,000 · 56 kt wind · 15 events
- Flash Flooding in North Carolina, June 13, 2025$60,000 · 9 events
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 13, 2025$43,000 · 52 kt wind · 14 events
- Flash Flooding and Heavy Rain in Virginia, June 13 to 14, 2025$40,000 · 4 events
- Flash Flooding and Flood in West Virginia, June 13 to 16, 2025$4,000 · 50 kt wind · 23 events
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 13, 2025$20,000 · 61 kt wind · 8 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, June 13, 20252.75 in hail · 21 events
- Flash Flooding in Tennessee, June 13, 2025$24,000 · 2 events
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, June 13, 2025$15,000 · 1.25 in hail · 2 events
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.