View Hurricane Laura Storm Tracker Pictures. The storm weakened to a category 2 hurricane then later to a tropical storm, with sustained winds of about 65 mph, as it moved north toward arkansas, according to the national hurricane center. Track the latest tropical activity with cnn's storm tracker.

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Extremely dangerous hurricane laura made landfall early thursday near cameron, louisiana, bringing a catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flash flooding to portions of the state, the national hurricane center said. Hurricane laura, hurricane, tracking, hurricane tracker, laura, storm, weather, weather center, gulf coast, live stream, live video, live. The hurricane center warned people not to focus on the details of the official forecast since storm surge, wind and heavy rain will extend far from laura's center.

Maps showing hurricane laura's path, storm surge and rainfall.

Hurricane laura storm surge leaves la.'s vermilion river traveling in opposite direction. Hurricane laura has weakened to a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of nearly 40 mph. National hurricane center has downgraded laura to a tropical depression as the storm system crosses arkansas. After making landfall overnight with wind speeds of 150 miles an hour, the winds had john bel edwards said the hurricane's track was just slightly east of what had been forecast, and the eye of the storm never crossed over the calcasieu ship channel.