Louisiana hit by sixth hurricane in five years with Hurricane Francine
NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Francine packed a significant punch across southeast Louisiana & south Mississippi. Numerous to widespread power outages, significant flash flooding & storm surge.
Hurricane Francine’s landfall marks a series of unfortunate events with now 6 landfalling hurricanes since 2019.
Though the system made landfall as a Category 2 Hurricane on Wednesday with 100mph sustained winds, it will be remembered for the widespread flash flooding along the system’s track.
Highest wind gusts of 80-100mph were reported across coastal parishes. Many locations inland saw wind gusts of 50-75+mph. As many as 400+K customers were without power at the height of the storm.
3-5+ft of storm surge(officially measured). National Hurricane Center will likely find higher surge amounts in post-analysis after investigating in areas outside of levee protection.
Thank you all for your reports, kind words & being prepared for this storm. If you have additional rainfall totals, photos & videos — Please send my way [email protected].
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