Flash Flood — Concordia, Louisiana
September 2, 2008 · NOAA Storm Events record
Event narrative (NOAA)
Persistent heavy rains fell from the bands around weakening Hurricane Gustav. These slow moving bands produced tremendous rainfall amounts across nearly all of Concordia Parish. Rainfall totals ranged between 10 and 20 inches with the heaviest across the western side of the parish. The heaviest of rains fell during the evening of the 2nd and early morning hours of the 3rd.||This extreme rainfall flooded numerous roads across the parish and many of these were closed for several days. Many other roads were washed out along with some bridges damaged or destroyed. Dozens of homes and businesses were flooded along with apartment complexes. Flood damage was significant in most cases.||Agriculture was very hard hit across the parish as well. Nearly all farm land was flooded at some point with var
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.