Tropical Storm — Lower St. Martin, Louisiana

2012-08-28 to 2012-08-30 · Lower St. Martin, Louisiana

Event narrative

Scattered trees and power outages were reported across Saint Martin Parish Tuesday through Thursday August 28-30th. Maximum power outages were around 2600 customers parish wide. A few homes had minor roof damage.

Wider weather episode

Hurricane Issac made landfall in Southeast sections of Louisiana, however tropical storm conditions were felt well to the west of the center. No injuries or deaths were reported. Scattered power outages and downed trees occurred. As the system lifted north of the area flash flooding occurred in Rapides Parish as rain bands sat over the same location. The highest surge occurred at Amerada Pass were a storm tide rose to 3.46 feet resulting in a surge of 2.18 feet. Tides were actually pushed out at most coastal locations while the hurricane was making landfall resulting in tides at some locations 1 to 3 feet below normal and boats being stranded for several hours.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 408459. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.