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Rip Current in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

Rip Current September 22, 2002 · Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

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Death
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Injuries

What the National Weather Service wrote

Large swells from Hurricane Isidore, located in the extreme southeast Gulf of Mexico, caused rip tide conditions along the southeast Louisiana coast. A group of people swimming off the beach at Port Fourchon were caught in a rip tide. A 41 year old man drowned.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5320805. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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