Tropical Storm Claudette made landfall near New Orleans, threatening to dump torrential rain as millions across the South are under storm warnings, according to the National Hurricane Center
The center of the storm system -- previously referred to as Potential Tropical Cyclone Three -- came ashore sometime early Saturday, and by 4 a.m. ET was centered about 45 miles southwest of New Orleans with sustained winds of 45 mph, the National Hurricane Center said.Claudette is expected to produce heavy rain and dangerous flash flooding across coastal Mississippi and Alabama, as well as the far western Florida Panhandle, through Saturday afternoon, the NHC said.
" Rain is in the forecast throughout the SoutheastIn Mississippi, people started filling sandbags Thursday to help aid potential flooding, CNN affiliate WLOX reported. "I loaded up a bunch of sand and I am going to put them around my pens, that way my dogs aren't in knee high water," Michael Fahey, a Hancock County, Mississippi, resident told WLOX. Louisiana Gov.
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