Flash Flood Warning for Northern Morehouse Parish Until 1:00 p.m. CDT

The warning, in plain words

The product code is FFWJAN. The sender is the National Weather Service office in Jackson. The headline says the warning was issued October 4 at 10:55 a.m. CDT and lasts until October 4 at 1:00 p.m. CDT.

Severity is Severe. Urgency is Immediate. Certainty is Likely. The hazard line says flash flooding caused by thunderstorms. The source line says radar indicated. The live text product does not print a damage-threat word such as Considerable.

At 10:55 a.m. CDT, Doppler radar showed thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Flash flooding was ongoing or expected to begin shortly.

The impact line names creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets, underpasses, and other poor drainage and low-lying areas. Water can cover a road with no warning. You cannot tell the depth from the driver’s seat.

The parish code on the alert is LAC067 for Morehouse Parish. The alert id is urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.83da9501bbfa58f773b8f986dddcd3bc683dc0a5.001.1.

The Weather Service instruction is short: turn around, don’t drown when you meet a flooded road. Most flood deaths happen in vehicles.

Which part of the parish

This is not a warning for every acre of Morehouse Parish. The bulletin names the northern part of the parish, in northeastern Louisiana.

Bastrop, Mer Rouge, and Bonita sit in that northern part. Rural land near Bonita, and northeast of Bastrop and Mer Rouge, is in the same slice.

A rainfall detail carried with this notice says those rural portions may see 5 to 6 inches. The weather.gov text of FFWJAN does not print that inch total. Treat 5 to 6 inches as an estimate for the rural area, not as a second official clock. If weather.gov updates the rain line, weather.gov wins.

This page names the parish and communities only. It does not print a street address.

Places the warning names

The warning says some locations that will experience the flash flooding include Bastrop, Mer Rouge, Bonita, Galion, Beekman, and Jones.

Bastrop, Mer Rouge, and Bonita are the cities named for this brief. Galion, Beekman, and Jones are also on the Weather Service list. This page does not add towns the warning left out.

If your town is not on the list, you can still be in the warned area. The list is examples, not a fence.

This page does not print a street address, a house number, or a numbered highway as a destination.

What to do

Do not drive through water on the road. Six inches of moving water can knock you down. A foot or two can move a car. If you meet water, turn around.

Stay out of creeks, underpasses, and low parking lots that are filling. If you are in a low spot in northern Morehouse Parish, move to higher ground before the street becomes the creek.

The end time on this page is 1:00 p.m. CDT Sunday, which is 11:00 a.m. Pacific, unless the Jackson office extends the warning. Do not treat the end time as an all-clear until weather.gov says the warning is over.

If you see flooding and you can do it safely, tell local emergency services or law enforcement and ask them to pass the report to the National Weather Service. Call 911 if you are trapped.

Recheck the warning before you travel late Sunday morning. This clock is short.

Source

National Weather Service Jackson, Flash Flood Warning FFWJAN, issued 10:55 a.m. CDT Oct. 4, 2026, until 1:00 p.m. CDT Oct. 4, 2026. Live alert: https://api.weather.gov/alerts/urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.83da9501bbfa58f773b8f986dddcd3bc683dc0a5.001.1

The Weather Service flood safety page is https://www.weather.gov/safety/flood. The Jackson office also posted the warning on X at about 10:55 a.m. CDT: https://x.com/NWSJacksonMS/status/2106775302428934526. Confirm with the office, not with rumors.

Parish hub: https://noticenearby.com/la/morehouse. Notice Nearby is not the National Weather Service, the sheriff, or the fire department.

Notes and sources

1. Source: NWS Jackson Flash Flood Warning FFWJAN, alert urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.83da9501bbfa58f773b8f986dddcd3bc683dc0a5.001.1, checked live on the morning of Oct. 4, 2026. If weather.gov updates the clock, weather.gov wins.
2. Severity: Severe. Urgency: Immediate. Certainty: Likely. Ends 1:00 p.m. CDT / 11:00 a.m. Pacific Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026, unless extended. Auto-rescind of the hub pin uses that end time. The paper stays in Papers.
3. Rural rainfall estimate carried with this notice: 5 to 6 inches near Bonita and northeast of Bastrop and Mer Rouge. The weather.gov text product does not print that inch total.
4. Places named by the warning only. No street address numbers.
5. Author: Ryan Standley / Record of Sale, LLC / Notice Nearby.
6. Not legal advice. Not a newspaper. Not Legal Publication. Record of Sale, LLC (Oregon).