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Flash Flood in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
Flash Flood April 10, 2024 · St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.
What the National Weather Service wrote
Multiple streets across Chalmette were flooded.
The wider storm
A strong upper level disturbance, surface low, and cold front produced a line of severe thunderstorms that pushed across Southeast Louisiana and Southern Mississippi in the morning and early afternoon hours of Wednesday, April 10, 2024. The line of severe thunderstorms produced strong straight line winds, extensive flash flooding in the New Orleans metro area and several tornadoes. The strongest tornado was an EF-2 tornado that impacted the city of Slidell in St. Tammany Parish, LA on the morning of the 10th. 7 tornadoes have been confirmed from this event. 4 of those 7 touched down and tracked across just the city of Slidell. At one point, as many as 3 of those 7 were on the ground at the same time. These tornadoes have been determined to range in strength from EFU to EF2 after NWS storm surveys and high resolution satellite analysis were conducted.
Began near Arabi (29.9600, -89.9800).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
5 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1177913. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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