its west, which restricted its outflow on its west side and its pressure began to fluctuate. However, Laura continued to have a very impressive appearance on satellite imagery with a well-defined eye and circular rain bands. Turning almost due north, Laura made its final landfall near Cameron, Louisiana around 06:00 UTC with winds and a pressure of 939 mbars (27.73 inches). The wind speed made Laura the first Category 4 hurricane to ever hit southwestern Louisiana since the 1856 Last Island hurricane as well as the strongest hurricane to hit the state since Hurricane Camille in 1969 (which produced Category 5 conditions over the southeastern portion of the state). Forecasters at the NHC described the system as "a ferocious looking hurricane with a clear circular eye, an intense eyewall, and tightly-coiled surrounding spiral bands." Dissipation After landfall, Laura continued to move northward through the western side of Louisiana. It passed just west of Lake Charles, Louisiana while still at Category 4 intensity with sustained winds at the Lake Charles Regional Airport reaching with gusts up to . Despite this, Laura was already beginning to quickly weaken and its winds dropped to Category 3 intensity halfway between De Quincy and Oretta at 09:00 UTC before weakening to below major hurricane strength north of Singer just an hour later. Steadily turning more northeastward, Laura dropped to Category 1 status south of Natchitoches, Louisiana at 14:00 UTC as its eye filled and its satellite and radar appearance degraded. It weakened further to a tropical storm north of Arcadia at 17:00 UTC before moving into Southern Arkansas, where wind gusts in the state reached nearly . Convection around the storm center weakened further as the storm passed just east of Little Rock. Laura was downgraded to a tropical depression shortly after that at 03:00 UTC on August 28 and the responsibilities for issuing advisories on the storm was handed off to the Weather Prediction Center (WPC) since there was still a flood threat. Laura then accelerated as it turned northeastward and then east-northeastward as it began to lose tropical characteristics ahead of an approaching trough from the west. It moved through Southeastern Missouri and turned eastward into Kentucky before becoming a remnant low at 06:00 UTC on August 29. The WPC then issued its final advisory three hours later while the low was over Head of Grassy as the flood threat was generally over.