Overview

• The National Hurricane Center lowered Invest 93L’s chance of forming into a tropical depression to 30% as of July 18.
• Flood watches are in effect through Friday night in southern Louisiana, where 2–4 inches of rain are expected with localized totals up to 8 inches and rates of 2–4 inches per hour.
• Millions of residents across the Gulf Coast—from Louisiana and coastal Alabama to southeast Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle—are bracing for flash flooding.
• Sandbag distribution sites, including one at the Dryades YMCA in New Orleans, have opened with volunteers and local officials mobilizing flood preparations.
• Prolonged land interaction over the Florida Panhandle and hostile upper-level wind shear have kept the disturbance disorganized.