Category 2 hurricane left trail of flooding and wind damage, including 6-8in of rain in New Orleans
Francine’s center moved inland on Thursday after making landfall as a category 2 hurricane and had weakened to a tropical storm leaving a trail of flooding and wind damage in its wake.
Francine will now progressively deteriorate as it tracks across west-central Mississippi into the mid-south on Thursday and Friday. The storm is forecast to spin down and become a tropical depression by late Thursday and a post-tropical cyclone by Thursday night or early Friday.
About 6-8in of rain fell in the New Orleans area, the National Weather Service said.
