View Hurricane Laura Storm Surge Map Lake Charles Images. Hurricane laura slammed southern louisiana early thursday as a category 4 storm, one of the most powerful to strike the gulf coast in decades. It looks like it's in full beast mode. the national hurricane center kept raising its estimate of laura's storm surge, from 10 feet just becky clements, 56, evacuated from lake charles after hearing that it could suffer a direct hit.

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A catastrophic storm surge and damaging an extreme wind warning has been issued for southwestern louisiana, including lake charles and cameron. Laura and another storm, marco, earlier hit the caribbean, killing 24. The water pushed on land by the winds could also still.

Hurricane laura roared through southwestern louisiana early thursday morning, killing six and leaving behind a wide path of destruction.

Three confirmed dead in louisiana. At the lake charles regional airport, it. This map shows the storm surge heights predicted by the national hurricane center before laura's landfall. Hurricane laura made landfall in louisiana near the texas border early thursday as a category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph.