LIVE MAP: Track Hurricane Laura after landfall Nation Updated on Aug 27, 2020 2:42 PM EDT — Published on Aug 25, 2020 5:56 PM EDT User Survey    There are concerns that Laura could damage oil industry sites located around the Gulf Coast, where almost half of the country's oil refining capacity is situated. The hurricane with such a name was in the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook published by NOAA in May 2020. According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), one of the main scientific agencies and meteorological services in North America, since 1924, only 35 hurricanes have reached such power levels. This is around 4% of all Atlantic hurricanes. Comentar las notas de Clarín es exclusivo para suscriptores. Hurricane Laura made landfall in Cameron, Louisiana very early Thursday morning. Windy.app is a professional weather app, created for water and wind sports: sailing, surfing, fishing, and etc. Projected path of the hurricane Laura 2020. Map: Tracking Hurricane Laura’s Path. Please don't hesitate to use the form below for any kind of feedback. Officials went door to door in recent days urging roughly 7,000 residents to get out before the storm struck, as well as using social media posts and phone calls to warn of the danger. Portion of Interstate 10 in Louisiana were closed from Lake Charles to Lafayette. It confirms its status as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the state of Louisiana, and the strongest storm this year to hit the US. Hurricane Laura 2020 Tracker and Live Map More than 825,000 homes and businesses are without power. Huracán Laura: video en vivo y el mapa minuto a minuto con el avance de la tormenta Tocó tierra en Texas y Louisiana con una fuerza “histórica”. Louisiana Governor says search and rescue operations will begin Thursday. Ante la peligrosidad del potente ciclón, más de medio millón de personas en la costa del Golfo de México recibieron órdenes de evacuación, luego de que la tormenta Laura se convirtiera en un huracán este martes. The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. The storm is expected to hit during high tide, and weather officials delivered an ominous forecast of an "unsurvivable" surge with "large and destructive" waves as high as 20 feet along the coast, and as far as 40 miles inland, that could "cause catastrophic damage". There is a big probability that it will become a real hurricane in the next two days, at around 1 am, on Thursday, August 27, 2020. More info: https://t.co/tW4KeFW0gB #Laura pic.twitter.com/HPGWHi0M4s. Good morning and welcome to The Independent's live blog tracking the arrival of Hurricane Laura on the southern US coast. Hurricane Laura 2020 killed at least thirteen people: nine in Haiti and four in the Dominican Republic. Evacuation orders were in place in Texas and Louisiana for roughly 500,000 people, while buses of residents from western Louisiana headed to New Orleans, on the hurricane's eastern track. ET. Para comentar debés activar tu cuenta haciendo clic en el e-mail que te enviamos a la casilla NOS Home    Foto: EFE. He cited particular concern for Cameron Parish, the district in Louisiana where Laura is making landfall and which could experience a storm surge of up to 20 metres. ¿No encontraste el e-mail? At the bottom of the map, there is a weather forecast for the next 10 days. There is a big probability that it will become a hurricane in the next two days, at around 1 am, on Thursday, August 27, 2020. Individual images have been combined into a larger mosaic and tiled for distribution. 8:00 PM AST Tue Oct 20 Location: 28.2°N 56.3°W Moving: NW at 13 mph Min pressure: 992 mb Max sustained: 65 mph Public Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said search and rescue rescue efforts will start when officials are able to head out into the floodwaters safely. "In the five years I've been governor, I don't believe I've had a press conference where it was my intention to convey the sense of urgency that I am trying to convey right now," Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said during a Wednesday briefing as he urged residents to make immediate and final storm plans. In the tropical tracker below you can see Laura will continue to move north in Louisiana, just east of East Texas. Para comentar nuestras notas por favor completá los siguientes datos. The hurricane brought with it a deadly storm surge and damaging winds, but at this time it appears Texas was spared the worst of the weather. Contact Us. You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment. Scroll it to the right to see the projected path (track) of the hurricane Laura 2020. The storm is hitting at high tide. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said: "They're thinking Cameron Parish is going to look like an extension of the Gulf of Mexico for a couple of days.". Su velocidad de traslación es de 25 kilómetros por hora. All new users living in the area of the hurricane or typhoon get access to the free Pro version of the app on the time of hurricane or typhoon activity, so they can use professional tools in order to correctly evaluate weather conditions. "We worry about that storm surge going so far inland there because it's basically all marshland north to Interstate 10. And the peak of the season is usually between August and October. "We did everything we could to encourage them to leave.". El potente huracán se encuentra a 320 kilómetros al sureste de Port Arthur, Texas, y el sur sureste de Lake Charles, Louisiana. 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From August 27-31, the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) collected aerial damage assessment images in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura.