Isaias expected to make late-Friday U.S. Gulf landfall
The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Isaias is forecast to make landfall along the U.S. Gulf coast late Friday, bringing life-threatening storm surge. Winds and surge impacts are expected from the Mississippi River mouth to Suwannee, Florida, with damaging winds across parts of the Gulf states.
S. Gulf coast during the late evening Friday, bringing a life-threatening storm surge, the National Hurricane Center said. m. ET Thursday, the storm was 325 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River, heading northeast at 12 mph with 100 mph winds, the NHC said.
The storm is expected to turn northward on Friday, and might strengthen before finally making landfall in the late evening. Hurricane-force winds are extending 15 miles from the center of the storm, while tropical force winds are extending 125 miles for the storm's center, according to the NHC. , the NHC said. Damaging winds are expected over the Florida Panhandle, southern Alabama and southern Mississippi.
The storm has forced some energy companies to shut down their oil production in the Gulf and evacuation personnel from offshore facilities, The Wall Street Journal reported. According to the NHC, the eye of the storm, which can be seen on visible and infrared imagery, is the first eye noted on satellite pictures in the Atlantic basin during this year's hurricane season. com (END) Dow Jones Newswires October 08, 2026 17:36 ET (21:36 GMT) Copyright (c) 2026 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. The statements in this document shall not be considered as an objective or independent explanation of the matters.
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