Francine made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane. Hurricane Francine made landfall Wednesday evening in Louisiana, southwest of New Orleans, as a Category 2 storm. Francine has since ...

Francine made landfall in Terrebonne Parish as a Category 2 hurricane but weakened as it moved across land and was downgraded to a tropical storm Wednesday night. This live blog has now ended — you ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Francine struck Louisiana on Wednesday (Sept. 11) as a Category 2 storm, knocking out power to more than 300,000 customers and inundating southeast parishes with flooding rains.

Editor's note: Read Tuesday's updates on Francine as the storm takes aim at the U.S. Gulf Coast. Francine picked up steam and speed Tuesday, finally reaching hurricane strength and turning northeast ...

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Thanks to extremely warm Gulf waters, Hurricane Francine rapidly intensified into a Category 2 storm Wednesday before making landfall at about 5 p.m. When the storm made landfall, the storm was moving ...

Tropical Storm Francine continues to weaken as it heads further inland Thursday, but it still presents a threat of heavy rain and flooding across the Southeast. Early Thursday, the storm had maximum ...

Hurricane Francine is barreling toward the southern Louisiana coastline, where meteorologists expect the storm to make landfall late Wednesday afternoon or early evening. Hurricane Francine’s impacts ...

Francine became a Category 1 hurricane overnight, and wind speeds have maintained around 90 mph throughout Wednesday morning, near Category 2 levels, as it picks up steam, eyeing an early Wednesday ...

Porkchop Singleton, 78, prepares his generator ahead of Hurricane Francine on Wednesday in Morgan City, La. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Francine has been downgraded to a tropical storm, the National ...