Tropical update: Where is Tropical Storm Francine going?

Published: Sep 08, 2024 Duration: 00:04:54 Category: News & Politics

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I'm Kh A 11 meteorologist Kim Castro, a brand new update from the National Hurricane Center. We have tropical storm frame scene. Here are the current stats still holding at 50 mile an hour. Winds, pressure has dropped ever so slightly and is moving at a north northwest jog five miles an hour. Here's the convective field, it's pretty expansive. So even though the track has shifted further east, we could still see some wraparound rain impacting Houston. But overall, this is a good scenario for Texans right now. The National Hurricane Center has tropical storm free and seen gaining some momentum by this evening then becoming a category one hurricane. By tomorrow evening, it's expected to maintain that strength as it makes a landfall somewhere near Lake Charles. This could encompass Lafayette as well and notice the cone of uncertainty stretches as far east as New Orleans. Now, this could shift, which is why you're gonna wanna watch the forecast throughout the day as we get more updates. Once Francine starts to pick up more intensity, notice the time frame to watch is going to be late Tuesday night into early Wednesday for Houstonians, wrap around rain, I think is gonna be the biggest issue on Tuesday, scattered storms throughout the day. We could see some lingering moisture into Wednesday morning for the coast. We're gonna see elevated tides. A storm surge threat, coastal erosion, coastal flooding is a possibility. Don't let your guard down. Just make sure you follow the forecast as we track Francine and see any new developments or any ships in that forecast. Tropical storm watches for Brownsville and along coastal waters, this includes the coastal waters of our coastline chambers, Galveston, Brazoria and Matagorda. Notice further east, the threat becomes a little bit more elevated. So hurricane watches not just for the coast of Louisiana, but far inland communities are seeing the threat of those hurricane force, wind speeds and tropical storm wind fields into New Orleans too. The highest likelihood again of seeing the wind damage is going to be where that storm center tracks. So right now, Lake Charles Lafayette, uh New Orleans under the gun for that, but even our coastal counties have about a 50 to 60% chance to see some wind impacts. So that could mean we're not out of the woods when it comes to the potential of power outage threats or tropical storm force impacts. But all in all we are on the clean side of the storm. Remember the dirty side where we see the worst impacts is the right side. Check out these outer rain bands all throughout Tuesday, even into the evening hours So that's a snapshot at 1130 pm. You'll notice the center now we find and it'll race towards Louisiana by Wednesday morning. Maybe we see some residual rain bands filtering into Southeast Texas, but a lot of the moisture, the energy, the windfield, all the threats right now shifted towards the east one o'clock in the afternoon. Looks like the eye moves inland and then it will continue to race towards Kentucky by, um, late Wednesday into Thursday, Thursday forecast. So this is the rain all throughout the week. You'll notice the totals have dropped down because now the National Hurricane Center has a little better understanding as to where Francine is tracking. Now that the tropical storm has developed rainfall totals for us will be most significant along the coastline. Uh Widespread 1 to 2 inches I spots I think could see more than this. But the general bottom line is that inland impacts will be mitigated with Francine's track shifting further and further towards the east. No flood threat today noticed tomorrow were highlighted under a level two threat, slight risk for flooding. This includes a portion of Harris County, all of chambers, Galveston, Brazoria and Matagorda counties. This continues into Wednesday, but it shifts a little bit further east which is reflecting what Francine will be doing at this point. Uh Polk County, Liberty County still a portion of Harris Chambers Galveston as well as Brazoria. So tropical storm Francine has it under weather impact alert. Days. Tuesday and Wednesday, the primary threat is going to be some heavy rain, some scattered storms, some downpours and threats along the coastline. I need you to keep up with the forecast because this is a developing system. It's still very fluid and we're going to see some shifts to the track, some shifts to the intensity. So keep up with us.

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