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August 29, 2012 – Hurricane Isaac – Isaac comes ashore the state twice as a large Category 1 hurricane, producing an eleven-foot storm surge in Shell Beach. The storm produces sustained tropical storm-force winds and hurricane-force wind gusts in Grand Isle, leaving over 600,000 customers without power across the state. The city of LaPlace ...
As the center of Hurricane Katrina passed southeast of New Orleans on August 29, 2005, winds downtown were in the Category 1 range with frequent intense gusts. The storm surge caused approximately 23 breaches in the drainage canal and navigational canal levees and flood walls .
The New Orleans Hurricane of 1915 was an intense Category 4 hurricane that made landfall near Grand Isle, Louisiana, and the most intense tropical cyclone during the 1915 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm formed in late September when it moved westward and peaked in intensity of 145 mph (233 km/h) to weaken slightly by time of landfall on ...
The hurricane was about 195 miles (315 km) southwest of Morgan City, Louisiana, as it crawled northeast packing 90 mile-per-hour (145 km-per-hour) winds, according to an advisory from the U.S ...
The storm was about 350 miles southwest of Morgan City, Louisiana, moving northeast at about 10 mph. Peak sustained winds were 75 mph. The National Hurricane Center instituted a Hurricane Watch ...
The storm is expected to make landfall as a Category 1 storm early Tuesday in Louisiana, bringing 90 mph maximum sustained winds, a storm surge of as much as 11 feet and potentially historic ...
The hurricane peaked with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph (140 km/h) before it struck the central Gulf coast of the United States as a Category 1 hurricane on September 24, and evolved into an extratropical cyclone on September 25. [1] It was the first hurricane to affect oil refining in the Gulf of Mexico. The tropical cyclone led to ...
The interaction between the upper-level system and the wave led to the formation of a tropical depression on August 26 around 460 miles (740 km) south of New Orleans. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] At first the depression drifted westward but, as the western periphery of a high-pressure area weakened, it tracked towards the north and slowly strengthened.