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As of 11 p.m. ET Wednesday, Francine's center was about 35 miles northwest of New Orleans, the hurricane center said. It was moving northeast at 16 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph.
Editor's Note: This page is a summary of news on Hurricane Francine for Wednesday, Sept. 11. For the latest, view our story for Thursday, Sept. 12. Francine made landfall along the Louisiana coast ...
Francine strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane Tuesday evening in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm is forecast to make landfall in Louisiana on Wednesday afternoon or evening.
September 13, 2007 – Hurricane Humberto passed through the state as a weakening tropical storm after making landfall at High Island, Texas as a Category 1 hurricane. Damage and impacts were fairly limited across the state. September 22, 2007 – Tropical Depression Ten was the first tropical cyclone to directly threaten New Orleans since ...
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 hurricane watch has been issued for Lake Pontchartrain, and metropolitan New Orleans. A hurricane warning is in effect along the Louisiana coast from Cameron to Grand Isle.
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: ...
View the map of Tropical Storm Francine’s path and forecast. The storm is expected to become a hurricane by midweek as it nears the U.S. Gulf Coast.