Powerful Hurricane Laura made landfall in southwest Louisiana on Wednesday night.\u00a0 At 2:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Hurricane Laura was located at latitude 29.8\u00b0N and longitude 93.3\u00b0W which put it about 30 miles (50 km) south-southwest of Lake Charles, Louisiana.\u00a0 Laura was moving toward the north at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 150 m.p.h. (240 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 175 m.p.h. (280 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 938 mb.<\/p>\n
A Hurricane Warning was in effect for the portion of the coast from High Island, Texas to Intracoastal City, Louisiana.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Warnings were in effect for the portions of the coast from San Luis Pass to High Island, Texas and from Intracoastal City to the Mouth of the Mississippi River.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The center of Hurricane Laura officially made landfall near Cameron, Louisiana on Tuesday night.\u00a0 Hurricane Laura was the strongest hurricane on record to make landfall on the coast of southwest Louisiana.\u00a0 Laura was stronger than Hurricane Rita was when Rita made landfall in the same area in September 2005.\u00a0 The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Hurricane Laura was 31.6.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 19.6 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 51.2.\u00a0 Hurricane Laura was capable of causing widespread extensive damage.<\/p>\n A NOAA National Ocean Service weather station at Calcasieu Pass measured a sustained wind speed of 93 m.p.h. (150 km\/h) and a wind gust of 127 m.p.h. (204 km\/h) during the passage of the northern eyewall.\u00a0 The station also recorded a water rise of over 10 feet (3 meters).\u00a0 The National Weather Service station at the Lake Charles airport measured a wind gust of 104 m.p.h. (167 km\/h) during the passage of an inner rainband.\u00a0 There were numerous reports of power outages.<\/p>\n Hurricane Laura will move inland over western Louisiana on Thursday.\u00a0 The center of Laura will move over southern Arkansas by Thursday night.\u00a0 Hurricane Laura will continue to cause a significant storm surge along the coast of Louisiana on Thursday morning.\u00a0 Laura could produce hurricane force winds in Alexandria, Louisiana.\u00a0 It could bring strong tropical storm force winds to Shreveport and Monroe.\u00a0 Hurricane Laura will also drop heavy rain over Louisiana and parts of Arkansas.\u00a0 Flash floods could occur in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Powerful Hurricane Laura made landfall in southwest Louisiana on Wednesday night.\u00a0 At 2:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Hurricane Laura was located at latitude 29.8\u00b0N and longitude 93.3\u00b0W which put it about 30 miles (50 km) south-southwest of Lake Charles, Louisiana.\u00a0 Laura was moving toward the north at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[528,527,1546,115,2176,2175,2170,1775,2160,113,2173,2174,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10209,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208\/revisions\/10209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}