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A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for Barra del Tordo to the mouth of the Rio Grande and extends to Port Mansfield. Other areas under a Tropical Storm Watch include east of High Island, Texas to ...
Wind gusts of 60 to 80 mph pounded south-central and southeast Louisiana Wednesday evening, downing trees and power lines in multiple parishes, including Terrebonne, Lafourche and St. James.
The Amite City, Louisiana-based owner of a hurricane recovery service expects to put in 18-hour days for the next two weeks after Francine passed over the area, leaving a trail of destruction.
A peak wind gust of 129 mph (208 km/h) was also measured at Port Mansfield. Tropical storm-force winds in Corpus Christi, Texas blew roof gravel through the city, which led to substantial glass breakage to the 18-story Guarantee Bank Building and a 12-story wing of Spohn hospital. [24]
Wind gusts reaching 120 mph (190 km/h), coupled with over 6 inches (150 mm) of rainfall and a storm surge of 12 feet (3.7 m) caused over $790 million (2002 USD) in damage to Louisiana. A total of 237,000 people lost power, and oil rigs offshore were shut down for up to a week.
Impact of landfall on natural gas exports in western Louisiana. Farther inland, a mesonet near Calvin measured a wind gust of 70 miles per hour (110 km/h). [67] Trees and power lines were blown down all over the cities of Mansfield and Shreveport. [68] In the latter city, a tree fell on a house, injuring a person inside while another tree fell ...
Get the Sabine Parish, LA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... Pacific Northwest pounded by hurricane-force wind gusts, flooding rain from powerful atmospheric river storms.
Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes, which are equivalent to counties, and contains 304 municipalities consisting of four consolidated city-parishes, 64 cities, 130 towns, and 106 villages. [2] Louisiana's municipalities cover only 7.8% of the state's land mass but are home to 46.4% of its population. [1]