Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
September 24, 2005 – Hurricane Rita made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on the Texas-Louisiana border with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph. Devastaing storm surge destroyed coastal communities in Cameron Parish such as Holly Beach, but only one person was killed throughout the state due to mass evacuations which were heeded in the wake ...
A Hurricane Warning was in effect for the Louisiana coast from Cameron eastward to Grand Isle. Heavy rain was already starting to fall in the New Orleans area on Tuesday. More heavy rain is ...
The hurricane center warned southern Louisiana residents that "now is the time to stay inside and away from windows," and "have multiple ways to receive warnings and updates." The hurricane center ...
• Francine’s final stretch: Now a post-tropical cyclone, Francine is expected to rain itself out over the Southeast Friday and then fully dissipate over the weekend. Flooding still poses a ...
The Spanish–American War led to the United States establishing a hurricane warning office in Kingston, Jamaica in 1898, before shifting to Havana, Cuba after the war's end in 1899. [4] After the 1900 Galveston Hurricane, a hurricane warning office was established at New Orleans, Louisiana to deal with hurricane warnings in the Gulf of Mexico. [5]
The National Weather Service bulletin for the New Orleans region of 10:11 a.m., August 28, 2005, was a particularly dire warning issued by the local Weather Forecast Office in Slidell, Louisiana, warning of the devastation that Hurricane Katrina could wreak upon the Gulf Coast of the United States, and the human suffering that would follow once the storm left the area.
A hurricane warning was dropped to a tropical storm warning west of Cameron, Louisiana to Sabine Pass. A tropical storm warning is in effect along the coast from Grand Isle to the Alabama/Florida ...
Watches and warnings in effect. A hurricane warning was issued Monday afternoon for the Louisiana coast from the Texas border east to Morgan City, Louisiana, meaning hurricane conditions are ...