The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday night ordered vessels in Houston-area ports to prepare for Hurricane Laura and warned that inbound traffic could be halted 24 hours before gale force winds.
The Coast Guard asked that vessels in ports at Houston, Galveston, Freeport and Texas City be moved out of the water if possible. The agency wants large vessels to be ready to depart or that operators provide a plan for safely securing them during the storm. Smaller vessels were ordered to be sheltered outside of deep-draft shipping channels.
Gale force winds are defined as those stronger than 34 knots, about 40 mph.
Hurricane Laura at midday Tuesday was about 560 miles southeast of Galveston and had sustained winds of 75 mph. It was forecast to make landfall east of Beaumont late Wednesday or early Thursday as a Category 3 storm.
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