Wind damage to trees and structures as well as damage from the storm surge occurred in Vermilion and Iberia Parishes. With this being the strongest hurricane to affect Southwest Louisiana, wind damage to buildings and trees and storm surge damage was major to catastrophic across Cameron and Calcasieu parishes, with considerable damage occurring where the core of the hurricane passed across Beauregard and Vernon parishes. Click here for additional track data of Hurricane Laura. Laura finally weakened below hurricane strength by Noon as it was crossing I-20 in North Louisiana. Laura maintained major hurricane status throughout its passage across Cameron, Calcasieu and southern Beauregard Parishes, and category 2 status across northern Beauregard and Vernon parishes. The eye and eyewall of Laura passed over the entire Lake Charles metropolitan area including Lake Charles, Sulphur, Westlake, Moss Bluff and De Quincy while Laura was still a very powerful category 4 hurricane. Laura was the strongest hurricane to strike Southwest Louisiana since records began in 1851. With little change in strength, Laura made landfall at Cameron, Louisiana around 1 AM CDT August 27 th, with sustained winds of 150 mph (130 knots) and a minimum central pressure of 939 millibars (27.73 inches). Laura reached a peak intensity of 150 mph (130 knots) and a minimum central pressure of 937 millibars (27.67 inches) by 7 PM CDT. Laura began to explosively intensify on August 26 th, reaching category 2 by 1 AM CDT, category 3 by 7 AM CDT, and category 4 by 1 PM CDT. On August 25 th, Laura entered the Gulf of Mexico and became a Category 1 hurricane at 10 AM CDT. Tropical Storm Laura continued west northwestward, traveling just south of the island with a second landfall across Western Cuba late on August 24 th. Early on August 23rd, Tropical Storm Laura made landfall across Hispaniola, traversed the entire island, and made landfall across Eastern Cuba later that evening. As Laura moved westward, little additional strengthening took place as the center moved over the northern Lesser Antilles later that evening, and south of Puerto Rico on August 22 nd. On the morning of August 21 st, Tropical Depression Thirteen strengthened into Tropical Storm Laura, which was the earliest twelfth named Atlantic storm, beating the previous record of Hurricane Luis of 1995 by eight days. On August 19 th, the system became better organized, closed off a low-level circulation, and subsequently the National Hurricane Center began issuing advisories on Tropical Depression Thirteen late that evening. The wave traversed the tropical Atlantic for the next several days with little additional organization. Laura began as a large tropical wave that emerged off the west coast of Africa on August 16 th. Above: GOES 16 GeoColor Satellite Image of Hurricane Laura at 2301 UTC (6:01 PM CDT) on August 26, 2020.
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