New Orleans radar is out. Now watching storm from the Lake Charles radar.
The center is filling now. It is over land southwest of Houma in Terrebonne Parish.
Salt Point is no longer reporting. Patterson is no longer reporting.
Water is still overtopping the Industrial Canal but still no breach or failure of the flood walls. Keeping fingers crossed.
Strom surge on the Mississippi Coast…3 SW Waveland [Hancock Co, MS] emergency mngr reports STORM SURGE at 10:30 AM CDT — flooding extends inland to the csx railroad…bayside park and clermont harbor area. no homes are inundated at this time.
WTNT52 KNHC 011557
TCEAT2
HURRICANE GUSTAV TROPICAL CYCLONE POSITION ESTIMATE
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL072008
1100 AM CDT MON SEP 01 2008
AT 11 AM CDT…1600 UTC…THE CENTER OF HURRICANE GUSTAV WAS
ESTIMATED NEAR LATITUDE 29.4 NORTH…LONGITUDE 91.0 WEST OR ABOUT
70 MILES…110 KM…SOUTH OF NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA AND
ABOUT 25 MILES…40 KM…WEST-NORTHWEST OF COCODRIE LOUISIANA.
DURING THE LAST HOUR…THE NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICE AUTOMATED STATION
AT SHELL BEACH LOUISIANA REPORTED A WIND GUST OF 71 MPH…
115 KM/HR.
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FORECASTER BEVEN
