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Hurricane Laura was a deadly and destructive tropical cyclone that is tied with the 1856 Last Island hurricane and 2021's Hurricane Ida as the strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in the U.S. state of Louisiana, as measured by maximum sustained winds.
After landfall, Laura continued to move northward through the western side of Louisiana. It passed just west of Lake Charles, Louisiana while still at Category 4 intensity with sustained winds at the Lake Charles Regional Airport reaching 95 mph (153 km/h) with gusts up to 132 mph (212 km/h). [35]
The Capital One Tower in Lake Charles was heavily damaged while the National Guard clears out debris all left behind from Hurricane Laura. June 7, 2020 – Tropical Storm Cristobal made landfall east of Grand Isle with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph. Storm surge from Cristobal reached a total of 5 ft (1.5 m) along the coastline ...
The tower, which was the tallest building in Lake Charles and a prominent feature of the city’s skyline for more than four decades, was majorly damaged when Hurricane Laura hit Louisiana, and ...
Laura, a Category 4 storm, devastated large swaths of Lake Charles, killing at least 28 people and bringing severe flooding to the city of 80,000. At its peak, the storm knocked out power for ...
The most intense hurricane to hit Louisiana in more than a century has left at least six people dead, hundreds of thousands of people without power and an untold number of homes and buildings in ...
That day, Laura became a major hurricane, and later attained peak 1-minute sustained winds of 150 mph (240 km/h), making it a Category 4 hurricane. Early on August 27, Laura made landfall near peak intensity on Cameron, Louisiana. This was the tenth-strongest U.S. hurricane landfall by windspeed on record. After landfall, Laura rapidly weakened ...
Downed trees, debris, and tarps shielding damaged roofs — remnants of Hurricane Laura — were seen in Lake Charles, Louisiana, on Thursday, October 8, as the region braces for another hurricane ...