Flash Flood — Sabine, Louisiana

2008-03-30 to 2008-03-31 · near Pleasant Hill, Sabine, Louisiana

Event narrative

Road in and near Converse, Louisiana were flooded. Numerous other roads across the parish were also flooded. Several roads and bridges also washed out across the parish. Flooding was spotted at the intersection of Highway 171 and San Antonio Avenue, Elizabeth Street and at the intersection of Highway 171 and Smith Street and on Buffalo Drive. Several automobiles were flooded in town including one in which a man had to wade out of his car to safety. A boater on nearby Toledo Bend Reservoir barely escaped injury when his boat overturned as it was pinned against a bridge. Culverts and parish roadways were washed out near the town of Zwolle, Louisiana. Other roadways closed from flood water included Belmont Road as well as Blue Lake Road, Highway 1216 and Highway 175.

Wider weather episode

Widespread flooding was reported along and south of a northward moving warm front across the lower Toledo Bend and Sam Rayburn country of Deep East Texas as well as west central Louisiana. These storms trained across the same area for most of the pre-dawn hours of the 30th as well as during the day. Large hail and damaging thunderstorm wind gusts were reported across portions of the region as well with isolated tornadoes reported across portions of Deep East Texas as well as west central Louisiana during the afternoon hours of March 30th.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 87546. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.