Tuesday, October 1

Tropical Storm Nicholas has Louisiana on alert for more flooding


Partes de la costa de Texas y el suroeste de Louisiana pueden recibir fuertes lluvias.
Parts of the Texas coast and southwestern Louisiana can receive heavy rains.

Photo: Brandon Bell / Getty Images

The Tropical Storm Nicholas is soaking the Houston metropolitan area in Texas as it moves along the coast of that state.

The system, which is expected to make landfall on Tuesday morning early in Texas as hurricane n, drop another 5 to 10 inches of rainfall over a wide area spanning from the north coast of Texas to the west of the Florida Panhandle until Thursday.

Possible to occur “life-threatening flash floods” over the next two days, particularly in urban areas, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

Tropical Storm # Nicholas Advisory 11: Nicholas Moving Slowly East-Northeastward Across the Upper Texas Coastal Plain. Life-Threatening Flash Floods Expected Across Portions of The Deep South During the Next Couple of Days. https://t.co/VqHn0u1vgc

– National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) September 14, 2021

Parts of southern Louisiana could see a total of isolated rains of 20 inches, according to the agency.

The Tropical Storm Nicholas is currently at 50 miles east of Houston, moving east to northeast at 6 mph, the hurricane center said at 4 p.m. CDT.

The maximum sustained winds of the storm have fallen to 40 mph, but people should beware of rain and storm surge, forecasters warned.

Louisiana has a dire prognosis

There are parts of southern Louisiana still dealing with the effects of the Hurricane Ida , including tens of thousands of people who remain no power two weeks after the storm . Now those same places are flooded by Nicholas.

is expected to drop six to 10 inches of rain over most of the Louisiana coast in a warning area extending from west Lake Charles to beyond New Orleans.

The National Weather Service (NWS) says that much of the coastline and inland areas from Texas to Mississippi face a moderate risk of flash floods , which means that those floods have at least one 20% chance of occurring. Parts of the warning zone extend more than 100 miles inland, covering more than half of Louisiana.

“Nicholas may stop over southwest or central Louisiana.” the hurricane center said Tuesday.

The system still projects tropical storm force winds at 140 miles from your center, but most of those winds are southeast of its center, over the Gulf of Mexico.

It is expected that the tropical storm Nicholas continues to lose organization and turn into a tropical depression Tuesday night, with further weakening expected on Wednesday.