High Winds, Rain as Tropical Storm Cristobal Makes Landfall Over Louisiana

High Winds, Rain as Tropical Storm Cristobal Makes Landfall Over Louisiana
A wave crashes as a man stands on a jetty near Orleans Harbor in Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans, as Tropical Storm Cristobal approaches the Louisiana Coast, on June 7, 2020. Gerald Herbert/AP Photo
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NEW ORLEANS—Tropical Storm Cristobal made landfall on the Louisiana coast Sunday, packing 50 mph winds and spinning dangerous weather as far east as northern Florida, where it spawned a tornado that uprooted trees and downed power lines.

The lopsided storm moved ashore between the mouth of the Mississippi River and the barrier island resort community of Grand Isle, which had been evacuated a day earlier.