MIAMI\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Rain fell across parts of Texas and Louisiana on Tuesday as Tropical Storm Edouard moved toward the Gulf Coast, bringing the possibility of flooding as it was expected to strengthen significantly and possibly reach hurricane force, the National Hurricane Center warned.<\/p>\n
Forecasters expected the storm to to make landfall in Texas later on Tuesday and then rapidly weaken. In the meantime, several storms were brewing in the Pacific Ocean, including Lowell, which reached hurricane strength Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
Edouard was about 30 miles southeast of the Texas coastal city of Port Arthur, near the Louisiana border and close to the area where it was expected to make landfall.<\/p>\n
The hurricane center said Edouard was expected to dump 3 to 6 inches of rain along the Texas coast through east-central Texas, but some areas could see up to 9 inches. Southwestern Louisiana was expected to see lesser amounts.<\/p>\n
Flash flooding was likely in low-lying and urban areas, the hurricane center said.<\/p>\n
Storm heads toward Texas and Louisiana<\/p>\n
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the biggest problem expected from the storm is flooding.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is our first big storm of the season, and I\u2019ll tell you, Texas is prepared,\u201d Orlando Alanis of the Texas Division of Emergency Management said during a news conference.<\/p>\n
Crews worked Monday to clear dry vegetation that could ignite from a lightning strike and cause fast-spreading fires, Abbott said.<\/p>\n
A storm surge of 3 to 5 feet was possible along a stretch of coastline around the Texas-Louisiana border, the hurricane center said.<\/p>\n
In Cameron, Louisiana, the winds had picked up and rain was coming through on and off Tuesday morning, said Connor Salvador, who owns an RV park there near the coast. \u201cNothing too crazy yet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said while there could be a \u201clittle bit\u201d of flooding if they get a lot of rain, he wasn\u2019t too worried about Edouard.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re pretty used to all these types of storms that come through,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Several storms in the Pacific Ocean<\/p>\n
Newly formed Hurricane Lowell in the Pacific Ocean was centered about 575 miles southeast of Hilo, Hawaii, on Tuesday morning. The storm\u2019s maximum sustained winds had increased to 80 mph. Forecasters said swells from Lowell were likely to impact parts of Hawaii beginning Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Marie formed in the Pacific Ocean early Tuesday well offshore of southwest Mexico and wasn\u2019t threatening land, the center said. The storm was about 400 miles southwest of Manzanillo with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph and was moving northwest. Forecasters said Marie was gradually strengthening and was expected to become a hurricane by Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the Pacific, Karina became a hurricane Sunday, fueled by warm waters far from any shore. It strengthened Monday into a powerful Category 4 storm but forecasters said Tuesday that it was expected to weaken. Forecasters said the storm centered 1,280 miles west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula of Mexico carried maximum sustained winds of 140 mph but wasn\u2019t threatening land.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the remnants of Tropical Storm Dolly brought rain and thunderstorms to parts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the Turks & Caicos, and the Bahamas, the hurricane center said.<\/p>\n
Stengle writes for the Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Rain fell across parts of Texas and Louisiana on Tuesday as Tropical Storm Edouard moved toward the Gulf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[146722,1192,147188,147187,27409,120716,99682,93320,39447,2385,147189,12330,27,29,28,146716,36753],"class_list":["post-423089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-forecaster","tag-louisiana","tag-lowell","tag-maximum-sustained-wind","tag-mile","tag-mph","tag-national-hurricane-center","tag-pacific-ocean","tag-part","tag-rain","tag-southwest-mexico","tag-storm","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tropical-storm-edouard","tag-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}