The National Weather Service issued a tropical-storm warning Thursday evening that extends across the Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas coastlines.
On its current track, NWS meteorologist Bob Wagner said, Tropical Storm Lee is expected to make landfall Saturday afternoon or evening in southwest Louisiana with winds up to 60 miles per hour. Landfall at that location would bring winds of up to 40 miles per hour to the Mississippi Coast. The tropical depression was not expected to become a hurricane. It was interacting with an upper-level low-pressure system to produce large areas of showers and thunderstorms.
The tropical-storm warning was issued after the Hurricane Hunters flew into the Gulf storm Wednesday afternoon.
Wind speeds were measured at 35 miles per hour.