U.S. Gulf Coast prepares for another hurricane
Hurricane conditions were expected by early Tuesday from Grand Isle, Louisiana to Ocean Springs, Mississippi, including New Orleans, the center said.
Sally is expected to become a category 2 hurricane with 100-mile-per-hour (161 kph) winds by the time it makes landfall in southeast Louisiana on Tuesday, an official with the U.S. National Weather Service said.
Sally carried the danger of storm surges - when the ocean rises at the coast over normal tide levels - of up to 11 feet (3.35 m), and rainfall of up to 12 inches (30 cm), the center said.
A mandatory evacuation was also ordered in parts of Louisiana on Sunday.
