The National Hurricane Center put the center of Cindy some 65 miles south-southwest of Lake Charles, Louisiana and about 50 miles south-southeast of Port Arthur Texas as of 2 a.m. EDT, with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph.
Tropical Storm Cindy has been downgraded to a tropical depression, but the unsafe storm is still causing major damage in the Southeast U.S. It had maximum sustained winds of 40 miles per hour and was moving north at 12 miles per hour.
Tropical Storm Cindy has weakened this morning and is now classified as a Tropical Depression and all Tropical Storm Warnings have been discontinued. It will continue to head north, forecasters say, moving into Arkansas Friday and then Tennessee later that day. Rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches with isolated maximum amounts of 4 inches are expected through Friday morning.
A storm could cause a surge of up to three feet (1 metre) in isolated areas from southeastern Louisiana to the western Florida Panhandle and possibly spawn tornados from the lower MS and Tennessee Valley regions to the central Gulf Coast, the NHC said. At worst, the storm could flood neighborhoods outside the city's levee system and cause flash flooding even in protected areas.
The Gulf Coast was still suffering from the effects of Cindy, a former tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico that crawled ashore early Thursday near the Louisiana-Texas state line.
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Det Supt McCormack said every complete body had been recovered from the building, describing it as a "very, very distressing scene".
Cindy began hitting parts of the region hard Wednesday, toppling trees in Biloxi, Mississippi and flooding low-lying areas. Wth a rising tide, strong southerly winds from Tropical Depression Cindy lash the lakefront Thursday, June 22, 2017 in Mandeville, La.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey issued a state of emergency Tuesday because of the threat of torrential rains and other severe weather, including risky high tides and rip currents. It's the third storm of the season, which got an early start with Tropical Storm Arlene in April. The storm made landfall early Thursday in southwestern Louisiana.
Already blamed for one death in Alabama, Cindy was expected to keep churning seas and spin off bands of severe weather from eastern Texas to northwestern Florida. Tricia Hayes records images of unusually large waves created by Tropical Storm Cindy on Bolivar Peninsula, Texas, Wednesday, June 21, 2017.
Some threats could be lurking in the flood waters, Alabama state officials warned: Floating colonies of fire ants could form in the gushing surge of water, the Alabama Cooperative Extension System said in a statement. That should limit flooding threats to nuisance street flooding. There were numerous reports of waterspouts and short-lived tornadoes spawned by the storm.
We continue to see high water levels on the southern reaches of the Amite, Tickfaw, and Tangipahoa rivers due to the persistent south and southeast wind, which is not expected to end until the weekend.
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