Hurricane Francine hits the coast, here's its updated track and impacts

Published: Sep 11, 2024 Duration: 00:02:17 Category: News & Politics

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This morning, heavy rain and wind gusts are traveling from New Orleans to central Mississippi as Francine continues to force those in its path to hunker down to stay safe. Now, that storm made landfall as a hurricane, it's now been downgraded to a tropical storm. Southern Louisiana under a flash flood emergency with some areas bracing for up to 10 ft of storm surge. 5 to 6 inches of rain an hour, cars submerged in New Orleans down trees and power lines nearby. Boy, certainly a mess there. As we check in with meteorologist Mario, we need to see how the storm is doing right now and even with that downgrade, still that path, uh leaving kind of a wake of destruction and you know, mark, it is moving rather slowly here the next 24 hours and slow moving tropical systems. That means an added flood threat right now. It is still considered a tropical storm. So tropical storm Francine still has Maxine winds of 45 MPH, wind gusts of 60 MPH and it's taking a northeastward track at about 12 miles per hour. Again, that's rather slow New Orleans right now is dry but still dealing with that flooding. Meanwhile, a huge swath of rain in Jackson, Mississippi. Now yesterday it made landfall as a category two storm in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana with Maxine winds of 100 MPH. And like I mentioned that big swath of rain. That's the thickest band of rain over Jackson. That is where the flood concern is now with flood warnings in place for a big portion. The area I'm gonna take you through where we saw the heaviest rain just on the north side of New Orleans. 5 to 9 inches of rain, 3 to 5 inches of rain though four areas of Southeast Louisiana and along that coastline, 1 to 3, that's not including the storm surge, but areas like Biloxi, Mississippi, 3 to 5 inches of rain. Now, this is going to take a northward track, like I mentioned, it'll impact Jackson. But eventually all of that moisture trekking along towards Memphis and that's going to be the next area that going to be dealing with the flooding and this happens on Friday. But that's not the only thing we're watching now, a new area of interest. This is going to be eventually tropical storm Gordon. It is expected to take shape here before the weekend as of now. No local impacts, but of course, we'll be watching it. It's just that time of the year. Kara hurricane season is very much active. Yeah, I know you said the peak we just ran, what, the 10th, right 10th? Ok. Thank you, Mariel.

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