"The storm is expected to move up into Louisiana Thursday where it will be absorbed by an approaching cold front moving in from the Plains", Guy said.
"Continued weakening is forecast during the next 48 hours, and Cindy should weaken to a tropical depression later today, and become a remnant low tonight", according to the National Hurricane Center.
Tropical Storm Cindy is moving ashore with max winds at 40 miles per hour. Marginal is the second lowest of risks on a six-point scale and means isolated severe thunderstorms are possible, with small hail and winds gusting to 40 miles per hour to 60 miles per hour.
A viewer tweeted images of a demolished KFC restaurant in Fairfield, which is also a western suburb of Birmingham. Dean Argo, a spokesman for the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board said one employee of the liquor store was hurt. People are being warned to stay off the road.
Be sure to continue to check our forecast for updates through this week.
"The tropical storm. promises to bring rain and cooler temperatures, curbing demand in the region", Daniel Myers, market analyst at Gelber & Associates in Houston said in a note on Wednesday.
"There's been a lot of rain in the area over the last three to four weeks, so the ground is pretty saturated", said Glen Brannan of Alabama's Mobile County Emergency Management Agency.
Rain fall up to 5 inches is predicted for Southeast Texas.
New homes sales rebounded 2.9 percent in May
The unemployment rate fell to a 16-year low of 4.3% in May and mortgage rates are still favorable by historical standards. So far in 2017, 271,000 new homes have been sold, which is 12% higher than during the same period a year ago .
The storm was blamed for one death Wednesday: A 10-year-old boy from the St. Louis area was killed on an Alabama beach when he was struck by a log that washed ashore. He died at the scene.
Cindy is the second tropical storm to form during the Atlantic hurricane season, which began June 1.
Recent rains from tropical storm Cindy have left the Wiregrass area in a very saturated state. Even though Thursday is shaping up to be a lovely summer day in New Jersey, forecasters say Friday and early Saturday could be marred by cloudy skies, occasional showers and isolated thunderstorms.
A helicopter crew lowered a pump to the ship, which the trawler crew used to keep the boat from sinking, the Coast Guard said.
In southwest Louisiana, not far from where Cindy came ashore before dawn, trucks navigated knee-high water in the streets of Cameron Parish - but there was no serious flooding. Though swamped roads and high tides interfered with transportation, Ashley Buller, an assistant in the parish emergency office, said there were no reports of major flooding.
People should not just focus on the path of the storm as heavy rainfall and severe thunderstorms will extend well out from the center, especially to the east and north of the track. This could cause scattered power outages, fallen trees, and minor property damage. He said the declaration was made in response to the flash flooding and severe weather caused by the tropical system.
A storm could cause a surge of up to three feet (1 meter) 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.
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