National Weather Service Updates Flooding Forecast for the Red River

photo by Jeff Easterling

The National Weather Service in Shreveport Louisiana has updated their forecasts for flooding of the Red River. With more heavy rains in the forecast for the Four States region the river is going to continue to rise and flood thousands of acres meaning that livestock will need to be evacuated to higher ground.

It is expected that levels may rise above levels of the last major flooding of the Red River in May of 1990. However, River levels at Fulton are not expected to spill over the levees, but of course that depends on rain amounts that will be falling further up river.

Here is a graphic from the NWS/Shreveport Facebook Page:

via N.W.S. Facebook Page