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Editor's note: Read Tuesday's updates on Francine as the storm takes aim at the U.S. Gulf Coast. Francine picked up steam and speed Tuesday, finally reaching hurricane strength and turning ...
Updated at 10:30 a.m. ET on Sunday, Sept. 8. 2024. A well-organized disturbance in the extreme southern Gulf of Mexico – officially tagged by the National Hurricane Center as Invest 91L – will ...
September 10, 2024 at 12:23 PM. Texas - Tropical Storm Francine is on track to impact parts of southeast Texas and Louisiana this week. The storm is expected to intensify into a hurricane as it ...
Hurricane Irene was a large and destructive tropical cyclone which affected much of the Caribbean and East Coast of the United States during late August 2011. The ninth named storm, first hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, Irene originated from a well-defined Atlantic tropical wave that began showing signs of organization east of the Lesser Antilles.
Flooding in Port Arthur from Hurricane Harvey. From 1980 to the present, 81 tropical or subtropical cyclones affected the U.S. state of Texas.According to David Roth of the Weather Prediction Center, a tropical cyclone makes landfall along the coastline about three times every four years, and on any 50 mi (80 km) segment of the coastline a hurricane makes landfall about once every six years.
Editor's note: This page is a summary of news on Hurricane Francine for Tuesday, Sept. 10. For the latest, view our file for Wednesday, Sept. 11. Francine strengthened into a hurricane Tuesday ...
October 3, 2002 – Hurricane Lili made landfall on the morning of October 3 near Intracoastal City, as a weakening category 1 hurricane. Wind gusts reaching 120 mph (190 km/h), coupled with over 6 inches (150 mm) of rainfall and a storm surge of 12 feet (3.7 m) caused over $790 million (2002 USD) in damage to Louisiana.
Francine was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone Thursday after slamming the Louisiana coast as a powerful Category 2 hurricane on Wednesday, with 100-mph winds that ripped roofs from buildings ...