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Preparations[edit]

Views of Tropical Storm Gordon from cameras on the International Space Station on September 4

A series of watches and warnings was issued in association with Tropical Storm Gordon. Tropical storm watches were issued for the Alabama-Florida border to Morgan City, Louisiana as well as Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas at 21:00 UTC on September 2. These watches were later upgraded to warnings at 09:00 UTC on September 3. Shortly after Gordon became a tropical storm, tropical storm warnings were issued around 12:30 UTC for Golden Beach to Bonita Beach, Florida as well as Craig Key to Ocean Reef, including Florida Bay, in the Florida Keys. A hurricane watch was issued at 15:00 UTC for the mouth of the Pearl River to the Alabama-Florida border. At the same time, a tropical storm warning was issued for the Alabama-Florida border to the Okaloosa-Walton county line. The hurricane watch was replaced with a hurricane warning around 21:00 UTC on September 3. The watches and warnings were gradually discontinued over the next few days.[1]

A state of emergency was declared for Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, where Gordon was expected to make landfall.[2] In Louisiana, Governor John Bel Edwards deployed 200 Louisiana National Guardsmen, 63 high-water trucks, 39 boats, and four helicopters.[3] Voluntary evacuation orders were posted for some parts of the state.[4] In neighboring Mississippi, all boats were required to be evacuated from marinas in Biloxi.[5]

Impact[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Tropical Cyclone Report - Tropical Storm Gordon". National Hurricane Center.
  2. ^ Stephanie K. Baer (September 3, 2018). "Tropical Storm Gordon Made Landfall On The Gulf Coast, Killing One Person". Buzzfeed News. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
  3. ^ CNBC (2018-09-04). "Tropical Storm Gordon races toward US Gulf Coast". CNBC. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
  4. ^ "Full list of evacuations ahead of Tropical Storm Gordon". WGNO. September 3, 2018. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
  5. ^ John Fitzhugh (September 3, 2018). "Boats evacuate Biloxi harbors to escape Tropical Storm Gordon". Sun Herald. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
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