Tropical Storm Francine Nearing Hurricane Strength on Tues. as it Becomes More Organized & Turns Northeast on a Track to Make Landfall in Louisiana!

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The National Hurricane Center said? “A hurricane warning has been issued for the Sabine Pass to Morgan City, Louisiana. Parts of New Orleans could also be affected, ” the hurricane center said. Officials warned residents within the forecast cone to complete preparations by Tuesday night and expect conditions to rapidly deteriorate through Wednesday.? As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, the system was located 120 miles southeast of the Rio Grande at the Mexico-U.S. border. It was moving north-northeast at 5 mph with maximum sustained wind speeds of 65 mph. Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 160 miles from the center.

Francine is?expected to impact?Texas and Louisiana as a hurricane on Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center.? After making landfall along the Louisiana coast, the system “is expected to move inland along the Texas-Louisiana border,” said AccuWeather meteorologist Isaac Longley. “One of the main concerns with this storm is that it is forecast to move into an area already impacted by heavy rain and flooding from a separate tropical rainstorm this past week.? The ground across far eastern Texas and into Louisiana is already saturated, so it would not take much rain to cause flooding across these areas.”

The storm should bring 4 to 8 inches of rain, with local amounts to 12 inches, from the coastal border areas of Mexico northward all the way to southern Louisiana and southern Mississippi into Thursday morning. ??Flash flooding and urban flooding are a risk.? The National Hurricane Center extended storm surge warnings, which now reach from High Island, Texas, near Houston eastward to the Mississippi-Alabama border, encompassing mouth of the Mississippi River, Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain. ?

Tropical storm warnings reach along the Mississippi coast east of the mouth of the Pearl River to the Mississippi/Alabama border, and a tropical storm watch has been issued for the Alabama coast from to the Alabama-Florida border.

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