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On 29 August the tropical cyclone made landfall on the shores of Louisiana as a Cat 4 hurricane. The weather system continued to the north-east, and caused severe flash floods in New York City on 1-2 September. The events were discussed in the WMO/WWRP Hiweather project for evaluation of the warning chain.
2. Description of the event
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5. Good and bad aspects of the forecasts for the event
- The signal of the system passing New York City was picked up from 28 August and onwards
- Also short-range HRES forecasts predicted the most intense rainfall too far north, in relation to New York City