Acting NOAA Administrator Laura Grimm, National Weather Service Director Ken Graham and National Hurricane Center Director Michael Brennan said the agency is prepared for the season with the Miami-based storm center fully staffed and so are the planes that fly into storms.
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He said landfall was likely somewhere between Sabine Pass - on the Texas-Louisiana line - and Morgan City, Louisiana, about 220 miles (350 kilometers) to the east.
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