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National Situation Update: Sunday, November 1, 2009

Homeland Security Threat Level: YELLOW (ELEVATED).

Significant Weather:

Several days of heavy rain has created the possibility of flash flooding and moderate to major flood levels along some rivers in Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas.(NOAA’s National Weather Service)

Bossier Parish, Louisiana 
A Flash Flood Warning is in effect for the Red Chute Levee in Bossier Parish in NW Louisiana, including the cities of Red Chute and Sligo. Water is over topping the levee north of Sligo, and near the Dogwood Trail Bridge water is leaking beneath the sandbags.
Residents in fourteen subdivisions are preparing for flooding and possible evacuation; an estimated 800 – 1,200 people could be impacted.
One shelter is open at Platt Elementary school in Haughton, LA. This facility can hold up to 150 people. Occupancy data is currently unavailable.                
There are significant road closures related to high water throughout the affected areas.
Water has entered homes in the Pecan Grove subdivision near Caplis Sligo Road, and is spilling over a one-half mile area of the Red Chute levee.
State Activity
The Governor of Louisiana declared a State of Emergency for Bossier, Caddo, and Caldwell Parish.
The LA Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP); The Crisis Action Team has been activated to monitor flash flooding and severe weather across Louisiana.

Federal Activity
FEMA Region VI Acting Regional Administrator is in communication with the LA GOHSEP Director. A State Liaison is on standby and has made contact with the LA GOHSEP, and both IA and PA PDA teams are on standby.
The US Army Corps of Engineers has also been monitoring this situation for several days.  (Region VI, Upper and Lower Mississippi River Forecast Centers)

Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG)

Tropical Weather Outlook

Atlantic
At 1:00 a.m. EST a non-tropical gale was located about 850 miles east-southeast of Bermuda. This low could slowly acquire some subtropical characteristics as it begins to move northwestward and then northward over the next couple of days. There is a low chance, less than 30 percent, of this system becoming a subtropical cyclone during the next 48 hours.
Elsewhere, tropical or subtropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 48 hours.
Eastern Pacific
Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 48 hours.
Central Pacific
No tropical cyclones are expected through Sunday afternoon.
Western Pacific 
No activity threatening United States Territories. (NOAA, HPC, National Hurricane Center, Central Pacific Hurricane Center and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center)

Earthquake Activity

No new activity (FEMA HQ)

Preliminary Damage Assessments

No new activity (FEMA HQ)

Disaster Declaration Activity

No new activity (FEMA HQ)