Tropical Alert: Warnings Issued On Lousiana, Texas Coasts

The National Hurricane Center has just issued a hurricane watch for the Gulf coast between Cameron, LA and Port Mansfield, Texas, or almost the entire Texas coast. This means that the exact location of the actual landfall is still anyone's guess at this point. It also means, as you've seen in my earlier report, that this is a big storm with a huge wind field. Anyone within 200 miles from the center of the storm's track will have at least Tropical Storm force winds and extremely heavy rainfall. A Tropical Storm warning extends east to the mouth of the Mississippi River, but does not include New Orleans (they should get some decent rains in any case).

The one silver lining is that this storm should track just far enough south to prevent an oil scare.