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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 ...
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] In 1979, the New Orleans forecast office moved to Slidell, merging with the radar observatory that had operated there since 1972. [3] In 1993, the Baton Rouge forecast office was ...
New Orleans, just inland from the forecast landfall site, is currently in the center of the hurricane's forecast cone and is expected to experience wind gusts of between 90 and 100 mph this afternoon.
The storm had been consistently gathering forward speed during the overnight hours and early on Wednesday, and, as of 4 p.m. CDT, was racing northward at 24 mph, with landfall predicted in late ...
Any major storm near Louisiana evokes memories of Hurricane Katrina, the 2005 storm that devastated New Orleans and surrounding areas, killing nearly 1,400 people and causing $125 billion in ...