MIAMI — Hurricane Delta that swept into the Gulf Coast of the US and made landfall near Creole, Louisiana, less than 24 hours ago has weakened to a tropical depression and is bringing heavy rain to western Mississippi.

The National Hurricane center says maximum sustained winds of what was once Hurricane Delta were clocked at 35 mph (55 kph) at around 10 a.m. local time Saturday.

Delta was centered about 65 miles (105 kilometers) north-northwest of Jackson, Mississippi, and was moving northeast at 16 mph (26 kph).

Hurricane Delta made landfall as a Category 2 storm in southwestern Louisiana. The center of the storm hit land at 6 p.m. Friday near Creole, with top winds of 100 mph (155 kph).

Delta is the 10th named storm to hit the continental United States this year, breaking a century-old record.

Delta weakened to a tropical depression as it continued to press inland on Saturday morning, but the system will remain a concern as it tracks across the Mississippi Valley.

Meteorologists are closely monitoring multiple new areas of tropical concern over the open Atlantic. AccuWeather forecasters are already scrutinizing an area of showers and thunderstorms, also known as a tropical wave, that is trekking across the Atlantic Ocean.

As of Saturday morning, this feature was located roughly midway between the Cabo Verde Islands and the Lesser Antilles. There are a number of tracks this storm could take into the beginning of next week. The system could gradually drift to the northwest and may bring little to no impact to land.

However, if an area of high pressure develops over the northern Atlantic, easterly winds on the southern side of the high may help to guide this budding tropical feature into the Caribbean. The next two storms that reach tropical storm strength, which is when sustained wind speeds reach 39 mph, will be given the names Epsilon and Zeta by the National Hurricane Center.

The estimated damage total and economic loss due to Hurricane Delta in the US is expected to be somewhere between $4 billion and $6 billion plus an additional $1 billion of damage that occurred earlier this week in Cancun, according to AccuWeather Founder and CEO Dr. Joel N. Myers.

“Our estimate of the economic damage caused by the storm is primarily due to powerful wind gusts, coastal storm surge and some flash flooding. Our estimate might have been even higher had it not been for destruction already caused by Hurricane Laura in August. Many families are still using tarps to cover their roofs,” Myers said.

“We factor into our estimate damage to homes and business as well as their contents and cars, jobs and wage losses, agricultural losses, infrastructure damage, damage to businesses and their buildings and contents, and the costs of power outages to businesses and residents.”

Myers added that the estimate also includes economic losses related to highway closures, evacuations, increased insurance premiums, rescue and recovery, clean up, and flight cancelations.

On Saturday morning, 2,500 members of Louisiana's National Guard deployed to areas across to the state in need of help, CBS News reported. "I want folks to be hopeful because we're going to do everything we can to get them right-side up again," Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said.

Early Saturday, State Sen. Ronnie Johns said that Delta is "worse than we even thought (in Lake Charles and Sulphur) again. We're getting tore up again. It's disheartening, but we'll be OK." — Agencies