Tropical Storm Barry brought wind and water to the central Gulf Coast on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Barry was located at latitude 31.0\u00b0N and longitude 93.0\u00b0W which put it about 35 miles (55 km) southwest of Alexandria, Louisiana.\u00a0 Barry was moving toward the north-northwest at 8 m.p.h. (13 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1002 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Warnings were still in effect for the portion of the coast from Grand Isle to Cameron, Louisiana, and for New Orleans, Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas.\u00a0 Several weather stations on the coast of Louisiana were still reporting sustained winds to tropical storm force on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Barry strengthened into a hurricane prior to making landfall near Intracoastal City, Louisiana on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 Then an upper level ridge centered over Texas strengthened after Barry became a hurricane.\u00a0 The ridge produced north-northeasterly winds at 25 m.p.h. (40 km\/h) which blew over the top of former Hurricane Barry.\u00a0 Those winds created strong vertical wind shear and they blew the top of the circulation south of the lower part of the circulation.\u00a0 By Saturday night the lower level circulation was over southwestern Louisiana and the top of the circulation was over the northwestern Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 Since the lower part of the circulation did not extend as high in the atmosphere, rain near the center of Tropical Storm Barry was relatively light.\u00a0 Heavier rain fell in bands on the eastern side of Barry.\u00a0 Heavy rain caused localized flooding in the area around Mobile, Alabama and along the coast of Mississippi.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Barry did cause minor wind damage over portions of southern Louisiana.\u00a0 There were reports of downed trees and widespread power outages.\u00a0 The wind pushed water toward the coast in the eastern half of the circulation and Barry generated a storm surge of 6 feet (2 meters) in several locations.\u00a0 There was also a rise in the water level along the northern shore of Lake Pontchartrain.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Barry is forecast to move northward over western Louisiana on Sunday.\u00a0 The water level along the coast should gradually decrease while Barry moves farther inland and weakens.\u00a0 Rainfall could increase in bands in the eastern side of the circulation on Sunday where the wind will transport moist air from the Gulf of Mexico over Louisiana and Mississippi.\u00a0 Flash Flood Watches continue for parts of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Barry brought wind and water to the central Gulf Coast on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Barry was located at latitude 31.0\u00b0N and longitude 93.0\u00b0W which put it about 35 miles (55 km) southwest of Alexandria, Louisiana.\u00a0 Barry was moving toward the north-northwest at 8 m.p.h. […]<\/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":[378,377,384,1546,1542,51,1213,113,493,837,716,112,1541],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924"}],"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=7924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7927,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924\/revisions\/7927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}