Power Outage in Colfax, LA

Multiple trees and power lines downed throughout Grant Parish.

A tree was blown onto power lines on Brooks Road near Dry Prong.

Trees and power lines were downed on Highway 71 northwest of Colfax.

Trees and power lines were blown down on Lemoine Cutoff Road near Highway 71 just northeast of Colfax.

Trees and power lines were downed throughout the southern half of Grant Parish.

Large tree limbs were blown down onto power lines in various locations throughout the city of Colfax.

Front Street was flooded with 1-2 feet of water in Colfax. Water entered several homes and businesses. Several roads were closed in and near Colfax. 8.50 inches of rain was measured near Nantachie Lake between Colfax and Verda. 6.87 inches of rain was also measured at the Rodemacher Power Station about 7 miles south of Colfax in Northern Rapides Parish. Reports and pictures from the KALB Facebook page.

Front Street was flooded with 1-2 feet of water in Colfax. Water entered several homes and businesses. Several roads were closed in and near Colfax. 8.50 inches of rain was measured near Nantachie Lake between Colfax and Verda. 6.87 inches of rain was also measured at the Rodemacher Power Station about 7 miles south of Colfax in Northern Rapides Parish. Reports and pictures from the KALB Facebook page.

Tree and power line down on Claudes Road near Lake Iatt.

A large tree was downed on a powerline causing a fire at the intersection of Hwy. 1240 and French Cemetery Road east of Montgomery, Louisiana.

Powerlines were blown down on 5th Street. Powerlines were also reported downed on Hwy. 158 in Colfax.

Powerlines were downed northeast of Colfax near Claudes Road off of Hwy. 158 nera Lake Iatt.

Widespread trees and powerlines were downed throughout the parish. A tree was downed on a home with other wind damage reported to other homes in the parish as well. Power outages were widespread.

Trees and powerlines were downed south and east of Colfax, Louisiana.

Several trees and powerlines were downed across the entire parish.

Powerlines were blown down on US-165 between Airbase Road and SR-3130.

Numerous trees and powerlines were blown down south of Airbase Road to the Grant/Rapides Parish line.

Powerlines were blown down between Holmes and Yale Streets in the town of Georgetown, Louisiana.

Trees and powerlines were downed across all of Grant Parish A woman was injured when she was struck by debris from straight line winds gusts that pushed here mobile home approximately six feet. Her foot was broken in two different places. Other damage included a few trees on homes, damaged vehicles from fallen trees as well as downed metal transmission structures.

Tropical storm force winds resulted in widespread trees and power lines downed throughout the parish. Power outages were widespread as well with numerous residents without power during the height of the storm and well after the storm.

Tropical storm force winds resulted in widespread trees and power lines downed across the entire parish. Numerous parish and secondary roads were impassable during the height of the storm from fallen debris and fallen trees. Nearly all of the parish was without power during the storm as well. The storm resulted in the death of a woman in Bentley, Louisiana when a tree hit her home. Three other people were injured when trees fell across other homes across the parish. The other injuries were not considered life-threatening. The roof was torn off a school administration building in Colfax, Louisiana.

Multiple reports of trees and powerlines downed across the parish.

Power lines were downed. Power out in Wayland and the St. Maurice areas.

Trees and powerlines were downed.

During the early morning hour, Hurricane Lili made landfall along the west shore of Vermilion Bay in South Central Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane. During the day, the hurricane made steady progress northward and by 2 pm, Lili was downgraded to a tropical storm. As the storm moved into North Central Louisiana, the storm produced sustained winds of 40 mph with frequent gusts to 55 mph across most of the warned area. the strongest winds were felt near and to the east of the decaying eye wall of the tropical storm which moved through Natchitoches, grant, La Salle, Winn, Caldwell, Jackson and Ouachita Parishes. Numerous reports of downed trees and power lines were reported throughout these parishes along with a report of a brief tornado touch down in southeast Grant Parish and La Salle Parish. While the wind damage was scattered throughout these parishes, very little, if any structural damage was reported.

Several large trees and power lines blown down.

Numerous trees and power lines were toppled.

An abnormally deep longwave trough shifted south southeast through the Midwest into Eastern Oklahoma and North Texas by the morning hours of July 31st, with an attendant cool front mixing southeast into Northwest Arkansas, Eastern Oklahoma, and North Texas. Showers and thunderstorms continued to develop along and ahead of this front along the longwave trough axis during the morning of the 31st, which organized into a broken line as it moved into a moderately unstable air mass by early afternoon during peak heating. Some of the storms became severe across the southern sections of Northcentral Louisiana, where trees and power lines were downed at various locations in Grant Parish, before exiting and weakening the area during the late afternoon hours.

A strong upper level trough moved out of the Four Corners region of the country and into the Central Plains during the early morning hours of February 10th. Strong southwest flow aloft was prevalent across the Southern Plains into the Lower Mississippi Valley as a warm front slowly lifted northward from the coast into East Texas and Central Louisiana. A line of thunderstorms developed along a prefrontal boundary west of the Interstate 35 corridor across Central and North Texas shortly after midnight on February 10th and this line of storms began racing eastward near 60 mph. Deep layer atmospheric shear which was mostly unidirectional which suggested that storm mode would be in the form of a squall line which did materialize and moved west to east across the region. Damage consisted of mostly trees and powerlines downed across a few locations.