![]() Two other disturbances were also being monitored by the National Hurricane Center:Ī surface trough developed Sunday afternoon over the west-central Gulf of Mexico. Rene was expected to become a remnant low on Monday before dissipating by Wednesday, the hurricane center said. 7, was downgraded to a tropical depression Sunday over the open Atlantic. Tropical Storm Rene, which formed on along with Paulette on Sept. ![]() The southern eyewall of the hurricane was over Bermuda and was lashing the island with torrential rains and hurricane conditions, with the storm’s strongest sustained winds measuring 100 mph, with higher gusts. Monday, moving north-northwest near 14 mph. Meanwhile, Hurricane Paulette was 65 miles north of Bermuda as of 11 a.m. The storm was expected to fade into a remnant low by Thursday. Vicky is the 20th named storm of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season but was not expected to last long. Teddy had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph.Īnd Tropical Storm Vicky has formed out of a depression that was a couple hundred miles west-northwest of the Cabo Verde Islands in the far eastern Atlantic. It was located about 1,250 miles east of the Lesser Antilles, a group of islands on the eastern rim of the Caribbean, as of 11 a.m. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Teddy formed early Monday from Tropical Depression 20 and could become a hurricane in a few days, National Hurricane Center forecasters said. Tate Reeves said late Sunday.Īs of 11 a.m., Sally was lurking in the Gulf about 185 miles southeast of Biloxi, Miss., and 140 miles east-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River. “It needs to be understood by all of our friends in the coastal region and in south Mississippi that if you live in low-lying areas, the time to get out is early tomorrow morning,” Mississippi Gov. ![]() John Bel Edwards said Sunday that there are still many from southwestern Louisiana who evacuated from Hurricane Laura into New Orleans - exactly the area that could be hit by Sally. Sally had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph and was moving west-northwest at a slow creep of 6 mph as of 11 a.m. On Saturday, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell issued a mandatory evacuation order for Orleans Parish residents living outside of the parish’s levee protection system. “Because it’s slowing down it could produce a tremendous amount of rainfall over the coming days.”Ī mandatory evacuation has already been issued in Grand Isle, La. “That system is forecast to bring not only damaging winds but a dangerous storm surge,” said Daniel Brown of the National Hurricane Center. Because of this threat, forecasters said, life-threatening flash flooding was a very real possibility. ![]() It’s expected to be a slow mover as it edges close to land, and was forecast to drop between 8 and 16 inches of rain, with up to 24 inches, or two feet, in isolated areas by the middle of the week. Sally was expected to be a rainmaker, too. “On the forecast track, the center of Sally will move over the north-central Gulf of Mexico today, approach southeastern Louisiana tonight, and make landfall in the hurricane warning area on Tuesday or Tuesday night,” the National Hurricane Center’s 11 a.m. northern Gulf Coast by late Monday, and is expected to make landfall Tuesday along coastal Louisiana or coastal Mississippi, National Hurricane Center forecasters said. Tropical Storm Sally is expected to bring life-threatening storm surge, hurricane-force winds and flash flooding along portions of the U.S. Also under a storm surge warning were Lake Pontchartrain, on which New Orleans sits, Lake Maurepas, Lake Borgne and Mobile Bay. “The highest storm surge of 7 to 11 feet is expected from the mouth of the Mississippi River to Ocean Springs, Mississippi, including Lake Borgne.”Ī storm surge warning, which pertains to the threat of rising water inundating land, was in effect from Fort Pourchon, La., to the Alabama-Florida border. “Sally will produce a deadly duo of human-height storm surge and a foot or more of rainfall in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama,” according to The Weather Channel.
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