Heavy rainfall began Friday, August 12, 2016 in Louisiana, with areas reaching almost 3 feet of rain water, causing local rivers to reach historic flood levels. Thousands were forced to evacuate, there are at least 13 dead, and many reported missing. Areas in South Louisiana in and around Lafayette and Baton Rouge were affected most.
Twenty parishes in Louisiana—Acadia, Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Livingston, Avoyelles, Evangeline, East Feliciana, West Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Tammany, Washington, Tangipahoa, and Vermillion—were declared major federal disaster areas.
Watson, LA—about 20 miles northeast of Baton Rouge—experienced 31.39 inches of rain, White Bayou, LA saw 26.14 inches. Livingston ended up with 25.52 inches. Baton Rouge received over 19 inches.
PDFs of satellite imagery and maps created from International Charter Data by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Regional Application Center Team:
S1A_20160819_BManchac_StJamesAOI_clip_surface
RADARSAT2-BatonRougeAOI18Aug2016_clip
Radarsat_LafayetteAOI_16Aug2016
Related News and Resources:
Flood Proxy Map (FPM) covering an area of 50-by-90 miles, including Lafayette, Louisiana, derived from post-event Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) amplitude images acquired by the RADARSAT-2 satellite on 16 August 2016 – Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team at JPL/Catech
Deluge in Louisiana – NASA
NASA analyses deadly Louisiana flooding – NASA
Floods in the State of Louisiana – DMCii
Before and after: Louisiana flooding – BBC News
August 2016: Louisiana flooding – NOAA
To view maps, satellite imagery of affected areas of flooding and statistical data on the floods follow the links below:
http://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/Events/2016USA4388/2016USA4388.html
Geospatial Information and Remotely Sensed Imagery: 201608_Flood_US_Data_Sources26August2016
Louisiana swipe map http://disasterresponse.maps.arcgis.com/apps/StorytellingSwipe/index.html?appid=2e499ec7eb784237bd70fb16ae0f5dcf
Copernicus EMS Louisiana Flood Maps link under 2016 August Flood US:
46 WV True color images (Aug 16 & 17) have been posted to HDDS.
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