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Isaac moves inland from Gulf

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  • Wednesday, August 29 2012 3:30 AM EDT2012-08-29 07:30:35 GMT
    At 12:20 this afternoon, the National Hurricane Center upgraded Isaac from a Tropical Storm to a Category 1 Hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph. The storm is likely to remain at Category 1
    Indiana is in the National Hurricane Center's official forecast track as of its 11:00 am Tuesday update. By this weekend, we could get heavy rain plus gusty winds and possibly the threat of isolated tornadoes.

Hurricane Isaac is beginning to move inland in southeast Louisiana and remains a category storm with top sustained winds of 80 miles per hour.  

The U.S. National Hurricane center in Miami said before dawn Wednesday that Isaac's center was expected to pass over Louisiana today and tomorrow and on to Arkansas early Friday. It will weaken over the next two days as it passes over land.  

Isaac came ashore Tuesday night near the mouth of the Mississippi River, then went nearly stationary for several hours over the sparsely populated neck of land that stretches into the Gulf of Mexico.

It was headed for New Orleans, 70 miles to the northwest, on the 7th anniversary of Katrina, knocking out power to several hundred thousand customers in the New Orleans area.

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