Hurricane Francine Need to Know: Landfall expected Wednesday evening, tornado threats, MSY updates

All right, thank you so much, Chris. That was some really good information. I have some more information that you might need to know. I got an email from uh the Louis Armstrong uh International Airport. They say that they are monitoring weather conditions and preparing for potential impacts from hurricane Francine so far, 100 and 30 cancellations. And they say that you need to check with your airline uh to find out if your flight has been canceled um there in order to minimize delays in processing through the check in counters, passengers who need to reschedule flights should work with their airlines to rebook before coming to the airport. So just keeping that in mind uh about your flights out tomorrow. Then we got a lot of other questions that good friend Alexa is in the building for uh some folks up in Ponto in the Hammond area, one in particular has to go to work tomorrow. So they're concerned um they wanna know what can they expect as far as winds, wind speeds or tornadoes? Ok. So yeah, we've been talking about the worst case, worst case scenario, wind speed. What time are they going to work tomorrow. So that's what I asked. He said he's going to work at 8 a.m. And so before 8 a.m. was an issue, but things are changing. So going to work at 8 a.m. and on the North Shore, not, not so bad, it'll be fine. I think tomorrow morning you gotta go to work tomorrow morning or do any last minute preps tomorrow morning, the morning hours are good. But as we get into this afternoon, the later afternoon evening hours winds gusting up to maybe 70 MPH at the worst possible end of the scale here planning for that worst case scenario, 70 mile per hour gusts for the Ponchatoula area. So that's what we have tomorrow for the late afternoon evening. And then when it comes to the tornado threat, it is very isolated. And the thing is, it's, they like Chris Franklin was mentioning any, uh, tornadoes that do come on shore, they move by pretty quickly. They're very short lived, they're weak and it's almost like what's the difference between the damage from a tornado and the destructive winds that we are expecting to see. So, no matter what we, if we get an isolated tornado, it will be quick, it will be short lived. It's really the winds that we have to, to watch for tomorrow during that late afternoon and evening time frame that will probably be more impactful than any short lived weak tornadoes that come on shore all mixed up in there. All right. Another question is, is it also possible because we've been talking about the upper level crop? Ok. Is it possible that the wind shear could minimize the threat of tornadoes by reducing spin in the atmosphere within those bands of rain? These people are really paying attention to your forecast. Ok. I know we always talk about sheer, like two different like sides of the spectrum. Like sheer is good when it comes to hurricanes. Sheer is like the enemy of a hurricane. But sheer is um he useful for tornadoes. So sheer makes tornadoes happen. Sheer helps rip apart hurricanes. So it's like confusing as a sheer. Sheer is a good thing for us when it comes to hurricanes. But sheer is a bad thing when it comes to tornadoes. But um even so like we've been mentioning, it's kind of self contained. When you talk about tropical tornadoes, you have these rain bands coming on shore and as it's kind of twisting on shore, the rain bands, um uh those outer bands they encounter more friction when they, when they move on land. So the storm kind of slows down closer to the surface, but the winds and the higher levels of the atmosphere are still going pretty strong. So that's how you get those quick spin up tornadoes. So it's kind of a self contained thing if, if, if anything, the stronger sheer may help make more tornadoes happen. So, but but they are, like we said, we may get a couple of tornado warnings pop up but they will be weak, they will be short lived. And really, what's the difference between the strong winds from a tornado and the strong winds from a landfall in? You know, I, I love this. Ok. And the last question, uh, somebody from Shamed says, because we've been talking about it being, uh, a category one when it hits land, what is the chances that it could turn into a two? Luckily, with back to the sheer thing, back to the sheer, the sheer, the dry air is helping to keep the intensity down. So the hur that helps keep the intensity down for the hurricane's strength. So, so far it looks like it will maintain itself as a category one storm at landfall tomorrow, sometime in the late afternoon and evening hours. A strong category one at 90 MPH for those sustained winds at landfall. But it looks like it should stay a category one strength but a strong category one. But we have those, those factors that we're saying a prayer for. We're happy to see the dry air in the sheer, helping to keep the, the really high intensity down. We did the upper level trial. We want that. All right. Thank you so much, Alexa. Uh If you have any questions that you want answered, you can text that number on your screen 504529 4444. I will try to get those answers for you. I'll send it back over to Katie and Devin. All.