Get Hurricane Laura Storm Track Pictures. Authorities say the storm is now 35 miles south of little rock. Hurricane laura knocked out most of the water service in lake charles, louisiana, thursday.

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The us national hurricane center (nhc) indicated in its latest weather update on wednesday that hurricane laura will strike the us gulf coast as a category 4 storm after picking up strength in the gulf of mexico. Hurricane laura's outer bands began lashing the gulf coast on wednesday afternoon and forecasters' warnings grew more dire as the menacing storm crept closer to land. Hurricane laura sustained winds of 150 mph when it made landfall as a category 4 hurricane early thursday morning in louisiana, near the texas border.

Hurricane laura became a category 3 hurricane wednesday morning and it could become a category 4.

Laura made landfall early thursday as a powerful category 4 hurricane, and it's since weakened to a tropical storm. Hurricane laura, a major category 4 storm, hurtled toward the coasts of louisiana and texas on wednesday, prompting dire warnings forecasters have made tremendous advances in their ability to predict the track a storm will take, but rapid intensification remains frustratingly mysterious, said. Already, as a tropical storm, it has killed 13 people on the island of hispaniola. Hurricane laura shredded the trees and roofs of louisiana's lake charles area and surrounding calcasieu parish, but the storm brought little flooding the hurricane's path of devastation tracked northward, as the high winds ripped houses apart as the storm maintained gusts of more than 100.