Youngsville’s heavy rainfall classified as 100 year storm

YOUNGSVILLE, La. ( KLFY )- Experts with the National Weather Service in Lake Charles said the torrential rainfall in Youngsville is classified as once in a century storm.

News 10 spoke with Jonathan Brazzell, a service hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Lake Charles.

“The percentage is really what we’re calculating, it’s the storm that has a five percent chance of occurring in any given year,” said Brazzell…

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