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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 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.
The hurricane subsequently weakened due to another eyewall replacement cycle, and Katrina made its second landfall at 1110 UTC on August 29, as a high-end Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 125 mph (201 km/h), near Buras-Triumph, Louisiana. At landfall, hurricane-force winds extended outward 120 miles (190 km) from the center and the ...
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.
The Hurricane Center forecast the storm to max out as a Category 2 before weakening over land as it crawled north with maximum sustained winds of 96 to 110 mph (154 to 177 kph).
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.
On Monday, August 29, 2005, the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed east of the city, subjecting it to hurricane wind conditions, but sparing New Orleans of the worst impact. The city seemed to have escaped most of the catastrophic wind damage and heavy rain that had been predicted. Most buildings held up well structurally.
Located on the western side of Katrina, New Orleans experienced weaker winds. The NHC estimated the city likely experienced sustained Category 1– to Category 2–force winds. A station along the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway measured sustained winds of 78 mph (126 km/h). As winds increase with elevation, the high-rise buildings of the city may ...
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