Flood — East Baton Rouge, Louisiana
August 13, 2016 · NOAA Storm Events record
Event narrative (NOAA)
Twenty to thirty inches of rainfall over a 2 day period led to widespread flash flooding in East Baton Rouge Parish, details of which are contained in the flash flood report for the parish. As water drained into the local rivers, record levels were recorded along the Amite and Comite Rivers, with flooding far exceeding the 1% annual risk flood plain. Portions of interstates 10 and 12 were closed due to high water on the roadways as crests moved downstream. In all, approximately 25,000 homes and hundreds of additional businesses suffered various degrees of flooding, though it's difficult to determine how many were due to initial flash flooding and how many were due to subsequent river flooding. Due to the extremely high water levels on the Amite river, water flowed back upstream on many str
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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.