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Coastal Flood in Western Orleans Parish, Louisiana

Coastal Flood May 19, 2021 – May 22, 2021 · Western Orleans Parish, Louisiana

What the National Weather Service wrote

Report from Orleans EOC that Venetian Isles had a few inches of water over roadways and earlier report of water over highways.

The wider storm

Strong east-southeasterly pressure gradient flow between a strong high pressure over the mid-Atlantic and a weak surface low in the northwestern Gulf led to several days of coastal flooding across southeastern Louisiana. Reports varied from each day, with the most impacts during high tide cycles.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 960572. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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