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... the state, while the hurricane's remnants carried tropical rain and wind across Tennessee and posed new dangers. Flooding and tornadoes were possible as the storm, now a tropical depression, drifted north. Forecasters warned that the system could strengthen into a tropical storm again upon returning to the Atlantic Ocean ...
... 11 hours after landfall did Laura finally lose hurricane status as it plowed north and thrashed Arkansas, and up until Thursday evening it remained a tropical storm, with sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph) and spawning tornadoes. Pastor Steve Hinkle surveyed the damage after a tornado gutted his Refuge ...
... powerful, but it passed quickly. Judy Woodruff: He plans to tour the damage this weekend. Back in Louisiana, the system's sustained winds dropped to tropical storm status as it lumbered farther inland. But it will still unleash strong winds across Northern Louisiana and Arkansas overnight, before turning east. Forecasters ...
... at about 1 a.m. Thursday. Nine hours later, it was about 10 miles north of Natchitoches, Louisiana, and had not yet weakened into a tropical storm. LIVE MAP: Track Hurricane Laura The hurricane is expected to keep drenching Louisiana and then Arkansas as a tropical storm, causing widespread flash ...
... mph put it among the strongest systems on record in the U.S. Not until 11 hours after landfall did Laura finally weaken into a tropical storm as it plowed north and thrashed Arkansas. The storm came ashore in low-lying Louisiana and clobbered Lake Charles, an industrial and casino ...
Ken Graham: Yes, it looks like, right now, we're looking at right around the Lake Charles, Beaumont, Port Arthur area with a major hurricane, just extreme winds, hurricane-force winds. Judy, the tropical-storm-force winds alone stretch out 205 miles out from the center, so extreme rainfall. And ...
... hurricane," The National Hurricane Center said. Laura is expected to strike Wednesday night into Thursday morning along the Louisiana-Texas border. Forecasters warn of “catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flash flooding" and 20 feet (6 meters) of storm surge. Tropical storm winds Wednesday afternoon reached the coast of Louisiana ...
Long-term recovery Long-term disaster recovery is never just about one event. It is a complex lived experience of simultaneously coping with recovery, new disasters and daily life. This is especially true along the Gulf Coast, which is frequently struck by hurricanes and tropical storms. Many Biloxians I spoke ...
... said heavy rainfall could arrive by Friday in parts of Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky. Laura is so powerful that it's expected to become a tropical storm again once it reaches the Atlantic Ocean, potentially menacing the Northeast. Even before dawn Wednesday, officials in Austin said the city had run ...
Laura initially formed alongside Tropical Storm Marco, which weakened to a post-tropical cyclone after briefly reaching hurricane status on Sunday, but still managed to bring heavy rains to parts of the north-central Gulf coast on Monday. Laura picked up intensity in the Gulf’s warm waters and reached ...
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