Arkansas — Hurricane Francine — the hurricane that is expected to make landfall late Wednesday afternoon — is forecasted to bring rain and damaging winds to Northeast Arkansas.
The storm which brewed out of the Gulf of Mexico has had citizens on southern Louisiana preparing for weeks. While Francine is only a Category 1 Hurricane, flooding, winds, storm surge and tornadoes will be the biggest impacts upon landfall.
After making landfall, the storm is forecasted to become a tropical storm, then, make its way through eastern Mississippi before turning farther west and hitting northeast Arkansas,the bootheel of Missouri and parts of western Tennessee.
By that time, the storm will be a tropical depression and is forecasted to cause flooding problems in localized areas, plus bring heavy winds.
The National Weather Service, for that reason, has issued a marginal risk for Thursday in far northeastern part of Arkansas, not Brookland, while the is subject to change.
This hurricane season has been historically below average, Francine is the first Atlantic storm since Ernesto about three weeks ago.
The last update on the hurricane at 1 p.m. CDT showed 90 mph. sustained winds, northeast.