A powerful tropical storm slammed into the US Gulf Coast on Tuesday.
Tropical Storm Edouard made landfall near Johnson Bayou, Louisiana shortly after 3pm ET, just east of the Texas state line, while a 71mph gust was recorded nearby at Texas Point.
Despite its strength, Edouard had one of the smallest wind fields ever observed in an Atlantic tropical system, limiting the scale of its destruction. However, millions of people across the wider region face a dangerous day of flooded roads, travel chaos, power outages and possible tornadoes.
Storm surge could push water as high as eight feet in the hardest-hit coastal locations
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