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The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for three Acadiana parishes where 2-9 inches of rain has already fallen in some spots. Iberia, St. Martin and St. Mary parishes are under a flash flood warning until 5:15 p.m. Thursday. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly, according to the NWS notice.
Gov. Jeff Landry honors Louisiana college student Emma Foltz for evacuating 14 summer campers during the deadly July 4 flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas. July 17, 2025 at the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
The search continues for more than 90 people still unaccounted for after deadly flooding swept through the Texas Hill Country nearly two weeks ago.
For one, the flood-ravaged region around Ruidoso, New Mexico, again finds itself at risk for slow-moving storms causing rapid water rise.
There have been many flash flooding incidents recently across the U.S., and flooding expert Alex Sosnowski expects that concern to continue in the Midwest and Louisiana with the tropical rainstorm.
Today, 17 million are under flood alerts across the Gulf Coast and in the Mid-Atlantic, and 19 million are under heat alerts across the Mid-Atlantic, southern Florida and Mississippi Valley.
The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority–East (SLFPA–E) has hired Louis (Jeff) Williams as its new Chief Engineer,
A slow-developing, broad area of low pressure located over the far northern portion of the Gulf is threatening to bring heavy rain and flooding.