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June 23–24, 2012 – Initially forecast to brush the state as a hurricane, [25] Tropical Storm Debby prompted a state of emergency. [26] The storm ultimately tracked far right of early predictions and struck Florida. Several days of onshore flow led to a storm surge in southeastern areas of the state, peaking at 2.68 ft (0.82 m) in Shell ...
The National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office New Orleans/Baton Rouge has its origins in a U.S. Army Signal Service office opened in Downtown New Orleans on October 4, 1870. [3] A hurricane forecast center operated in the New Orleans office from 1935 until 1966, when its responsibilities were transferred to the National Hurricane Center. [3]
A National Weather Service technician monitors Hurricane Carla on a WSR-57 radar on Sept. 10, 1961. (NOAA) For more than 60 years, Hurricane Carla has been the benchmark for landfalling hurricanes ...
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.
Hurricane Francine made landfall in southern Louisiana in the Parish of Terrebonne, about 30 miles south-southwest of Morgan City, as a Category 2 (Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) storm at 5: ...
At 5 p.m. CDT, the National Hurricane Center reported that Francine had made landfall in the Parish of Terrebonne, roughly 30 miles south-southwest of Morgan City. The maximum sustained wind speed ...
0–9. Tropical Depression Five (2010) 1812 Louisiana hurricane; 1831 Barbados–Louisiana hurricane; Racer's hurricane; 1856 Last Island hurricane; 1893 Cheniere Caminada hurricane
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.