3 days ago
15
Tropical tempest watches and warnings person been issued as Tropical Storm Arthur is expected to bring damaging winds, torrential rainfall and tempest surge to parts of Texas and Louisiana on Wednesday.
WATCH: HEAVY RAIN TRIGGERS DANGEROUS FLASH FLOODING ACROSS TEXAS, PROMPTING MULTIPLE WATER RESCUES
Arthur is the archetypal named tempest of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season. It strengthened into a named tempest aft being designated Potential Tropical Cyclone One.
A tropical storm is simply a tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds betwixt 39 and 73 mph, making it stronger than a tropical depression.
(FOX Weather)
Tropical Storm Arthur presently has maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and is forecast to nutrient a tempest surge of up to 2 to 4 feet from Port Bolivar, TX, to Morgan City, LA with up to 3 feet of tempest surge imaginable successful Galveston Bay.
(FOX Weather)
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has extended the Tropical Storm Warning westward to High Island, Texas, meaning a Warning is present successful effect from High Island to Morgan City, Louisiana, portion a Tropical Storm Watch continues further southbound from Sargent to High Island.
(FOX Weather)
A Tropical Storm Warning means tropical tempest conditions are expected wrong the informing area, mostly wrong 36 hours. While a Tropical Storm Watch means tropical storm conditions are imaginable wrong the ticker area, mostly wrong 48 hours.
According to the FOX Forecast Center, the strategy strengthened arsenic it moved northwest implicit the Gulf's lukewarm waters, which provided the thermal vigor needed to substance the storm.
In addition, a large-scale assistance associated with a crisp dip successful the pitchy stream helped region aerial from the storm's center, encouraging storms to make and organize.
However, due to the fact that the strategy spent constricted clip implicit h2o and continued to brushwood mean wind shear, forecasters expect strengthening to stay limited, apt keeping Arthur arsenic a mid-tier tropical storm.
Forecasters pass that Tropical Storm Arthur could inactive bring damaging winds and a life-threatening flash flood threat to the Gulf Coast done the extremity of the week.
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TROPICAL DEPRESSION, TROPICAL STORM AND HURRICANE?
A Level 3 retired of 4 flood menace is successful effect done Thursday morning, with the imaginable for wide and locally catastrophic flooding crossed galore cities, including Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Morgan City.
(FOX Weather)
The NHC forecasts rainfall totals of 5 to 10 inches, with isolated amounts approaching 20 inches, done aboriginal Friday from the mediate and precocious Texas seashore crossed overmuch of Louisiana and into portions of cardinal and confederate Mississippi and Alabama.
Earlier this week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a catastrophe declaration for 101 counties and urged residents to instrumentality precautions and debar driving connected flooded roadways arsenic terrible upwind continues to interaction the state.
"Texas is prepared to respond to the terrible upwind threats that proceed to determination crossed our state," Abbott said successful a statement. "Texans should heed the guidance of authorities and section officials and instrumentality each indispensable precautions to enactment harmless during this terrible weather."
Heavy rainfall swells waterways successful Boerne, Texas, triggering terrible flooding Monday.
(City of Boerne/Facebook)
Meanwhile, astir 3 cardinal Louisiana residents stay nether flash flood alerts.
Flooding concerns are expected to worsen, with Baton Rouge among 1 of the large cities located adjacent the bull's oculus of the heaviest rainfall.
HERE'S WHAT TO DO IF YOU ENCOUNTER A FLOODED ROAD
"This is simply a long-lasting event. It comes successful phases," Norcross said. "It mightiness look similar the rainfall is letting up, but the worst of it could inactive beryllium to come."
Stay with FOX Weather for the latest updates.
English (US) ·