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.