Tropical Storm Cindy continues to dump rain on the metro New Orleans area as it slowly makes its way toward land, according to the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center.
Cindy knocked out power to almost 10,000 New Orleans-area residents early Wednesday, though most power has been restored, the Entergy Louisiana provider said.
Previous report: As the potential tropical storm likely to be named Cindy approaches the Texas-Louisiana coasts, forecasters are closer to determining the storm potential impact. That's about 265 miles (430 km) south of Morgan City, Louisiana, and 355 miles (565 km) southeast of Galveston, Texas.
A tropical storm warning remains in effect for parts of southeast Texas, including the Houston area.
There was some good news Wednesday when the National Weather Service lifted the warning for metropolitan New Orleans.
"This rainfall could cause life-threatening flash flooding", the NHC warned.
"We continue to take this storm very seriously, we urge everyone in Louisiana to do the same", he said.
Over the next few days, wind shear should decrease to the point that this system can strengthen into a tropical depression or storm as it drifts northward toward the Gulf coast. "Isolated street flooding is possible as some areas could get up to 6" of rain.
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The center of the disturbance is expected to make landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border late Wednesday night into Thursday.
Storm Team 8 is tracking the storm, which formed Monday afternoon. Inundation of 1 to 3 feet above ground level is possible along the coast in the tropical storm warning area.
The National Weather Service said early Wednesday that flash flood watches covered parts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia as the storm trudged closer to the US mainland.
"There's still a long stretch of tropical moisture coming across the Gulf of Mexico", said Alek Krautmann of the National Weather Service in Slidell, Louisiana. Interests along the U.S. Gulf Coast from the central Texas coast to the western Florida Panhandle are advised to keep an eye on the storm.
Satellite imagery shows vigorous shower and thunderstorm activity in the northern and eastern Gulf of Mexico.
Areas of rain and non-severe thundershowers will begin to cover more areas along and south of the I-20 corridor throughout the morning. But the heaviest rain bands were to the east. Moreover, Alabama's governor declared a state-of-emergency on Tuesday morning as the state braced for the storm's impact.
Heavy rains and wind could disrupt oil supplies at the refineries and energy ports in Port Arthur, Texas and Lake Charles, Louisiana where large oil refining and chemical export operations are located, which could drive up gasoline prices.
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