Weather Underground WunderBlog (2016, August 15) Billion-Dollar Flood Has Louisiana Reeling 98L May Become a Tropical Depression. J225BATONROUGE George Strain remembers well what his Morning Glen neighborhood off Siegen Lane looked like during the flood of 2016.The Times-Picayune (2016, August 15) 6 dead because of Louisiana flooding, officials confirm.The Times-Picayune (2016, August 15) Louisiana flooding: 7 things you need to know Monday morning.
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Over a seven-day period, rain totals in southern Louisiana were at least 600 percent of normal, according to the Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center of the U.S National Weather Service. In that sense, the storm was similar to a tropical depression, except that surface winds were light. The low-pressure system developed a warm core, and counter-clockwise air flow pulled in moisture from warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Flash flooding swamped a 7-mile (11 km) section of Interstate 12 between Tangipahoa Parish and Baton Rouge, stranding 125 vehicles. The GPM satellite is the core of a rainfall observatory that includes measurements from NASA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and five other national and international partners.Īccording to Weather Underground, the multi-day rainfall accumulations (more than 20 inches in some places) stemmed from an unusual storm system. The data come from the Integrated Multi-Satellite Retrievals for GPM (IMERG), a product of the Global Precipitation Measurement mission. These rainfall totals are regional, remotely-sensed estimates, and local amounts can be significantly higher when measured from the ground. Specifically, it shows rainfall totals every three hours over the span of 72 hours from August 12-14, 2016. The animation above shows satellite-based measurements of the rainfall as it accumulated over the southern United States.
Louisiana’s governor declared a state of emergency on August 12 and a “major disaster” on August 14. (WAFB) - August 12 marks five years since the start of the historic 2016 flood in the Baton Rouge. According to news reports, the floods prompted the rescue of at least 20,000 people and caused at least nine deaths. Days of intense rainfall in August 2016 led to widespread flooding in southern Louisiana, as rivers swelled high above their banks and many crested at record-high levels.
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