Flash Flood — Beauregard, Louisiana

2019-07-14 to 2019-07-15 · near Helme, Beauregard, Louisiana

Event narrative

Numerous roads were closed between Dequincy, Ragley, and Reeves in southeast Beauregard Parish. The highest rainfall total recorded from the stalled feeder band of Hurricane Barry was 23.58 inches 4 miles south of Ragley. Around 15 homes flooded.

Wider weather episode

A mesoscale convective vortex interacted with a weak cold front over the the southeast states and northeast Gulf of Mexico. The surface low that developed moved southwest across the gulf then northwest into the south central Louisiana coast. The first tropical watches were issued July 10th from the National Hurricane Center and the center of minimal hurricane made landfall near Intracoastal City during the afternoon of the 13th. Storm surge from Barry peaked between 5 and 6 feet in and around Vermilion Bay. The center of Barry moved northwest across Southwest and West Louisiana in the following days where one band of heavy rain set up in Calcasieu and Beauregard Parishes producing significant flooding.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 847046. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.