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Tropical Storm — West Baton Rouge, LA

Jul 13, 2019

Hurricane Barry initially developed from a disturbance that moved from Georgia southwest to the northeast Gulf of Mexico on July 8-9, 2019. The weak low pressure system continued to move west-southwest and strengthen, and was eventually classified as Tropical Storm Barry on the morning of July 11th, 95 miles south southeast of the Mouth of the Mississippi River.||Barry continued to move slowly west then northwest and briefly reached hurricane strength on the morning of July 13th before landfall

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 846049). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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