Flash Flood — Tensas, Louisiana

2020-04-23 · near St Joseph, Tensas, Louisiana

Event narrative

Water covered the roads in town.

Wider weather episode

An upper level storm system moved across the region overnight on April 22nd into 23rd. Abundant moisture and wind energy was in place to bring severe thunderstorms to the region. Damaging winds occurred along with some tornadoes. Flash flooding also occurred with efficient rainfall rates and heavy rainfall. As the cold front moved through the region later during the afternoon of the 23rd, a few more storms developed during peak daytime heating and brought some hail and damaging winds to portions of eastern Mississippi.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 896513. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.