Hurricane Ida has made landfall on the Louisiana coast as a strong Category 4 storm packing catastrophic winds, life-threatening storm surge and flooding rainfall.

Ida's eye moved ashore at 11:55 a.m. CDT on Sunday near Port Fourchon, Louisiana. Maximum sustained winds were 150 mph.

Ida has tied two other hurricanes for the strongest landfall on record in the state of Louisiana based on maximum wind speeds. Laura had 150-mph winds when it tracked into southwest Louisiana last year. The other hurricane to make landfall in Louisiana with winds that high was in 1856.

Although Ida has made landfall, its impacts are far from over. on the storm surge, damaging wind and rainfall flooding threats it poses.

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