The American Red Cross is preparing emergency response in six states as Tropical Storm Cindy carries the threat of severe and unsafe flooding to the Gulf Coast.
As of Wednesday morning, Cindy was positioned 170 miles south of Morgan City, La.
A tropical storm warning was in effect from San Luis Pass, Texas, to the Alabama-Florida line.
The storm is expected to make landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border late today or tonight, although the heaviest rains and strongest winds are expected to occur east of where landfall occurs.
Bloomberg has reported that vessel offloading services at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port in the Gulf of Mexico are on hold due to Tropical Storm Cindy's impacts.
Maximum winds in the storm hit 60 miles per hour, and forecasters do not that to change Wednesday, according to information from the National Hurricane Center. Locally larger amounts could be recorded, so flooding is a big concern; the biggest threat for that looks to fall across southern and western portions of our viewing area. Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport in southern MS had recorded 7.19 inches of rain through early Wednesday morning.
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Large waves and unsafe rip currents: Six- to nine-foot breakers are likely along the northern Gulf Coast through Wednesday night.
One of the storms was located in the Florida panhandle northeast of Pensacola while the other was southeast of Mobile, Alabama.
In coastal Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish, Kim Chauvin said the shrimp processing businesses she and her husband run helped put out the word Monday that shrimpers should return to port and unload their catch before flood control structures closed.
There have been multiple reports of tornadoes and waterspouts along the MS coast throughout Wednesday morning. These areas can expect three to five inches of rainfall.
Meanwhile Monday, Tropical Storm Bret formed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Venezuela. McNoldy says that beyond Cindy, there are no other areas of disturbed weather primed for tropical development in the foreseeable future.
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