Forecasters are predicting a storm surge of up to 10 feet and warning of flooding across coastal Texas and southern Louisiana.
By Associated PressA tropical disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to make landfall in Louisiana as a hurricane, according to the National Weather Service.
“We’re going to have a very dangerous situation developing by the time we get into Wednesday for portions of the north-central Gulf Coast, primarily along the coast of Louisiana, where we’re going to see the potential for life threatening storm surge inundation and hurricane force winds,” said Michael Brennan, director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.
The hurricane center said Francine is located about 245 miles southeast of the mouth of the Rio Grande, and about 480 miles south-southeast of Cameron, Louisiana. Francine’s top winds Monday morning were about 50 miles per hour . A tropical storm is defined by sustained winds between 39 mph and 73 mph .
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