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Today, President Donald J. Trump declared that an emergency exists in the State of Louisiana and ordered Federal assistance to supplement State, tribal, and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from Tropical Storm Cristobal beginning on June 5, 2020, and continuing.The President’s action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to...

The third named storm of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season will make landfall by early afternoon on Sunday along the Gulf Coast, but will not grow any stronger before roaring ashore. As of Sunday morning, Tropical Storm Cristobal is still a 50 mph sustained wind storm and its window for strengthening is gone. The official forecast from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) keeps Cristobal at a 50 mph storm through landfall and will then weaken as it moves north up the Mississippi River Valley. The center of the storm should pull over land early afternoon around Houma, La. Tropical storm...

Cristobal has started to move toward the Gulf of Mexico after stalling over Campeche Mexico. Tropical Storm and storm surge watches have been issued along the Northern Gulf of Mexico coast. Most of the convection is located to the east of the storm. Satellite Imagery NHC Public Advisories NHC Discussions New Orleans Radar Loop Lake Charles LA Radar Loop Mobile AL Radar Loop Houston/Galveston TX Radar Loop Buoy Data with Storm Track overlay

Kristina Pydynowski, Senior MeteorologistAugust 24, 2014 Tropical Storm Cristobal has taken shape and is expected to become a hurricane and impact the Atlantic beaches of the United States with hazardous conditions. Tropical Depression Four strengthened into Tropical Storm Cristobal at 6:20 a.m. EDT Sunday. Cristobal was churning near the southern Bahamas at that time. Cristobal is forecast to stay east of the U.S. this week. However the Atlantic coast will not be free of impacts from the tropical system. "Even if a tropical storm or hurricane was to stay east of the Atlantic coast of the U.S., a strong system...

BULLETIN TROPICAL DEPRESSION THREE TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 715 PM EDT TUE AUG 06 2002 AT APPROXIMATELY 650 PM EDT...2250Z...AN AIR FORCE RESERVE RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT FOUND TROPICAL DEPRESSION THREE HAD STRENGTHENED INTO TROPICAL STORM CRISTOBAL. THIS IS JUSTIFIED BY FLIGHT-LEVEL WINDS RANGING FROM 48 TO 52 KNOTS BETWEEN 5000 AND 10000 FT IN THE SOUTHWEST QUADRANT AND A MEASURED CENTRAL PRESSURE OF 999 MB...OR 29.50 INCHES. A SPECIAL ADVISORY PACKAGE WILL ISSUED BY 8 PM EDT...0000 UTC. FORECASTER STEWART/BEVEN