Tropical Storm Harvey made its second landfall early Wednesday, hitting just west of Cameron, Louisiana, which is in the southwest corner of the state.
The storm returned to land about 5 miles west of Cameron with maximum sustained winds of 45 m.p.h. National Hurricane Center meteorologist Dennis Feltgen said Tuesday that when Harvey came back to shore, "it's the end of the beginning."
Meteorologists said Harvey was forecast to hit Louisiana much of the day before taking its downpours north. Arkansas, Tennessee and parts of Missouri are on alert for Harvey flooding in the next couple of days.
Feltgen said there's still a lot of residents in multiple states "who are going to feel the impacts of the storm."
The latest weather forecast delivered hope to Houston after five days of torrential rain submerged the nation's fourth-largest city: Less than an inch of rain and perhaps even sunshine.
With at least 18 dead and 13,000 people rescued in the Houston area and surrounding cities and counties in Southeast Texas, others were still trying to escape from inundated homes. Weakened levees were in danger of failing and a less-ferocious but still potent Harvey was on track to slam into Louisiana overnight.
Harvey roared ashore last week as a Category 4 hurricane and damaged school buildings in many coastal towns before unleashing unprecedented rainfall on much of a 200-mile swath of Texas stretching north to Houston.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
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