The impact of then-Hurricane Francine’s arrival on land as a category 2 storm Wednesday in Louisiana was minimal in Warren County when the storm arrived in the area Thursday as a tropical depression.

Despite rain and wind gust warnings, Warren County Emergency Management Agency Director John Elfer said the storm’s shift eastward left local residents mostly in the clear.

“The big takeaway is we only had about five or six trees down,” Elfer said. “We had zero incidents with the (school) buses and everybody worked together.”

Elfer said there were initial concerns about flash flooding as Francine approached, but none of the dangerous scenarios materialized as the storm worked its way through central Mississippi.

“We had zero ponding on the water. I wouldn’t say we had flash flooding, but we did have some standing water on some of the county roads and city streets, which is nothing unusual,” he said. “And, to my knowledge, no one was injured in any crashes.”

Elfer said approximately 60 power outages were reported across the county, with no lasting impact expected from the storm.

Wednesday, officials in Vicksburg put extra precautions into place, including more manpower and vehicles in the emergency rotation for the Vicksburg Fire Department and opening the Ardis T. Williams Sr. auditorium as a temporary shelter for anyone displaced by storm damage.

Thursday, Vicksburg Fire Chief Derrick Stamps said the department did not see an uptick in emergency calls as a result of the storm.