At a Glance

Storm surge breached a levee in St. Bernard Parish in Louisiana on Sunday afternoon.Highways were closed across several Gulf Coast states.Cristobal's outer bands created storms across Florida, including a tornado in Orlando.Evacuations were ordered in Grand Isle, Lafourche Parish and Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.Four people were caught up in an undertow at a beach in Grand Isle.

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The outer bands of Tropical Storm Cristobal caused damage from Florida to Louisiana on Sunday as rain from the storm, along with storm surge, led to flooding in many Gulf Coast states.

The tropical storm prompted tornado warnings in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi, and flooding was already occurring in those three states and in Louisiana where evacuations had been ordered.

Louisiana

Flooding began in parts of Louisiana on Sunday morning and continued through much of the day.

The city of New Orleans shortly before 1:45 p.m. CDT called for voluntary evacuations for areas outside of the levee system in Orleans Parish, including Venetian Isles, Lake Catherine and Irish Bayou.

Lakeshore Drive along Lake Pontchartrain was closed as the storm caused water to slosh across the roadway.

Officials in St. Benard Parish said water was washing over roads outside the parish's levee system. A road crew built a rock dam on Highway 46 to control flooding and allow access to Yscloskey, Hopedale and Shell Beach.

However, later Sunday afternoon, water breached the Delacroix ring levee and flowed onto nearby roads.

The St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office closed Florissant Highway and Delacroix Highway at the LA46 junction because of the rising water.

At least three Louisiana communities remained under mandatory evacuation orders, including Grand Isle in Jefferson Parish.

Jefferson Parish Council member Ricky Templet was riding out the storm in Grand Isle.

"This is the ," Templet told nola.com, adding that Louisiana Highway 1 was underwater.

"Grand Isle is 7 miles long. We only have about 2 miles of the island that's passable," Templet said.

Voluntary evacuations were advised for the communities of Jean Lafitte, Lower Lafitte and Crown Point.

An evacuation order also was in effect for parts of and for parts of . Workers were also evacuated from dozens of oil rigs off the coast.

Two children died after being caught in an undertow Friday night in southern Louisiana, as Tropical Storm Cristobal churned in the Gulf of Mexico.

The children, brothers ages 8 and 10, were swimming at a beach in Grand Isle around 7 p.m., WVUE-TV reported. Their 12-year-old cousin and an adult male were airlifted to a hospital.

Florida

Flood warnings were issued for Jacksonville and surrounding Duval County and for neighboring St. Johns County in Florida on Sunday.

The Florida Highway Patrol reported that a tree fell across two lanes of southbound Interstate 295 near Interstate 10 in Duval. Water was standing in the northbound lanes of I-295 near mile marker 54.

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At Interstate 10, all on- and off-ramps at Cassat Avenue were closed because of flooding, the FHP said.

The flooding, as deep as 3 feet in some places, closed numerous streets across the city. Inundated cars were stranded.

All lanes of Interstate 10 near mile marker 273, west of Live Oak, remain closed Sunday evening because of flooding, according to the Florida Department of Transportation.

Earlier in the day, a tornado touched down south of Lake City near Interstate 75, meteorologist Kirsten Chaney in the weather service’s Jacksonville office told The Associated Press. There were no immediate reports of injuries. The storm splintered and uprooted trees and downed power lines.

Meanwhile, cleanup continued Sunday morning after a tornado spawned by Cristobal displaced as many as 50 people in Orlando, Florida.

Orange County Fire Rescue said a tornado, including an apartment complex, southeast of downtown Orlando shortly before 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

The damage forced 30 to 50 people out of their homes, the department said.

The National Weather Service office in Melbourne, Florida, on Sunday said the twister began as a waterspout over Lake Conway about 7:20 p.m. It continued northward as a tornado paralleling Ferncreek Avenue. It traveled more than 5 miles before lifting about 7:32 p.m. just north of Lake Lawsona.

The NWS rated it an EF0 tornado but added that more substantial damage near Lake Margaret Drive and Ferncreek Avenue was more consistent with an EF1.

The tornado ripped off roofs, blew out windows, toppled walls and crushed cars under fallen trees.

The Orange County Property Appraiser’s Office said it assessed 40 sites near Lake Margaret Drive and Ferncreek Avenue and found , WFTV reported.

In addition, a possible tornado caused damage in the Wadeview Park neighborhood of Orlando.

A large sinkhole opened in the saturated ground alongside a highway in Florida's Marion County. State Road 35 was shut down in both directions at Dogwood Road after the ground gave way, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office. A concrete utility pole toppled over and dropped the traffic signals into the intersection.

Heavy rains associated with Tropical Storm Cristobal saturated the ground in Florida's Marion County, causing a large sinkhole to form on Sunday, June 7, 2020, alongside State Road 35 at Dogwood Road, the Marion County Sheriff's Office reported.

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The NWS reported trees were knocked down on several streets in Clearwater, Florida.

Tornado warnings were also issued for parts of coastal Alabama and Mississippi.

Alabama

Police closed the west end of Alabama's Dauphin Island when storm , the island's main east-west roadway, WKRG reported. The surge also pushed debris onto the road.

Mississippi

Several roads in Biloxi, Mississippi, were swamped on Sunday by a combination of rain and storm surge.

The Mississippi Department of Transportation from the Biloxi Bay Bridge to the Bay Saint Louis Bridge because of flooding in multiple locations.

The Lighthouse Pier in Biloxi was , WKRG reported.

Boat owners in Pass Christian worked to secure their boats as Cristobal's , the Biloxi Sun Herald reported.

Harrison County Emergency Manager Rupert Lacy said a number of drivers had to be rescued from their flood-stranded cars.

“People need to ,” Lacy told the Biloxi Sun Herald reported.

In neighboring Hancock County, emergency management officials said minor and major flooding , according to the Sun Herald.

An aerial view shows a building housing that had its roof blown off during a tornado spawned by Tropical Storm Cristobal. The EF1 tornado passed through Orlando, Florida, leaving at least 8 homes damaged, along with numerous reports of downed trees and power lines. No injuries have been reported. (Paul Hennessy / SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Images)

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