The core of Hurricane Nate made landfall in Mississippi Saturday night while moving at record breaking speeds.
Nate’s core moved north at 20 mph, which is the fastest on record, toward coastal Mississippi and Alabama. Rain bands pounded parts of Louisiana to the western panhandle of Florida earlier in the day.
The storm is responsible for killing at least 22 people in floods across Central America earlier this week. It’s one of about 14 other monster storms to plow through the Atlantic since late August.
Nate is also expected to cause as much as $4 billion in economic loss across an area dotted with casinos and resorts. Only $1 billion of those losses would insured, according to analysts who measure damage from hurricanes.
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Officials have issued hurricane warnings from Louisiana to the Alabama border with Florida. Nate has exhibited a combination of damaging 85 mph winds and torrential rain. The core is passing through New Orleans so quickly that the hurricane warning was eventually changed to a tropical storm warning.
Nate is the ninth hurricane to form in the Atlantic this season, a number that has included hurricanes Irma, Harvey ,and Maria, all of which sustained Category 4 hurricane level winds at different points.
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