Tropical Storm Francine 2024 New Orleans. Extreme flooding has struck new orleans and more than 350,000 power outages were reported as francine, now a tropical storm, pushed inland. Schools are closed in several parts of mississippi and louisiana, including new orleans.

Francine was a tropical depression over mississippi thursday morning central time, the national hurricane center said in its latest advisory. Francine quickly weakened to a tropical storm wednesday evening just hours after making landfall in louisiana as a destructive category 2 hurricane, pelting.