The Nationwide Climate Service forecast heavy rains and thunderstorms throughout the southeast via Thursday as Tropical Storm Francine strikes north from Louisiana into southern Mississippi.
The Nationwide Hurricane Heart stated Francine was round 20 miles northwest of New Orleans early Thursday, with most sustained winds of fifty mph. The tropical storm was shifting northeast towards Mississippi at 14 mph.
The W. Napoleon drainage canal overtopped after a deluge of rain from Hurricane Francine in Metairie, La., in Jefferson Parish, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024.
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Francine is anticipated to carry between 4 and eight inches of storm rainfall to areas throughout southeastern Louisiana, Mississippi, far southern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle via Thursday, the NHC stated.
“This rainfall might result in appreciable flash, city and river flooding,” it added.
The NWS warned of “heavy rain and probabilities for extreme thunderstorms” throughout the affected areas, in addition to tornadoes “doubtlessly impacting components of Alabama and the Florida Panhandle alongside a slow-moving heat entrance.”
“The best menace for appreciable flash flooding exists throughout components of northern and central Alabama,” it added, noting the potential of as much as 10 inches of rain.
The NHC additionally warned of harmful storm surges. Water might rise by 4 to six toes between the mouth of the Pearl River in Louisiana to Ocean Springs in Mississippi, in addition to at Lake Pontchartrain.
Three- to 5-foot surges might happen from Ocean Springs, Mississippi to the state border with Alabama, between Morgan Metropolis and the mouth of the Mississippi River in Louisiana and at Lake Maurepas, the NHC stated.
-ABC Information’ David Brennan and Max Golembo
