This NOAA satellite image taken Monday, September 10, 2012 at 10:45 AM EDT shows Tropical Storm Leslie as it moves northward towards Newfoundland. Leslie is expected to weaken as it brushes the eastern Canadian providence. Smaller sized Hurricane Michel is also weakening as it moves westward. Michael is still a Category 1 storm with winds of 80 mph but is expected to become a Tropical Storm overnight.(AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)
This NOAA satellite image taken Monday, September 10, 2012 at 10:45 AM EDT shows Tropical Storm Leslie as it moves northward towards Newfoundland. Leslie is expected to weaken as it brushes the eastern Canadian providence. Smaller sized Hurricane Michel is also weakening as it moves westward. Michael is still a Category 1 storm with winds of 80 mph but is expected to become a Tropical Storm overnight.(AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)
This NOAA satellite image taken Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012 at 10:45 AM EDT shows Tropical Storm Leslie passing to the east of Bermuda on its way northward. A frontal system stretching from Quebec, Canada through the Gulf of Mexico bringing showers and thunderstorms off the eastern seaboard. It will continue off to the east with a high pressure system bringing clear skies across the eastern United States. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)
A surfer paddles out into waves generated by Tropical Storm Leslie, at Lawrencetown Beach near Halifax, Novascotia, on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012. Leslie is expected to make landfall in Newfoundland early in the week bringing heavy rain and high winds. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Andrew Vaughan)
A vehicle sits outside a flooded car dealership lot after dikes on the Salmon River gave way in Truro, Nova Scotia on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. The area is under a rainfall warning as Tropical Storm Leslie churns toward Atlantic Canada. Leslie is expected to make landfall in Newfoundland bringing heavy rain and high winds. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Andrew Vaughan)
A resident looks on as dikes on the Salmon River gave way in Truro, Nova Scotia on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. The area is under a rainfall warning as Tropical Storm Leslie churns toward Atlantic Canada. Leslie is expected to make landfall in Newfoundland bringing heavy rain and high winds. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Andrew Vaughan)
FORTUNE, Newfoundland (AP) ? The Canadian Hurricane Centre says the center of Tropical Storm Leslie has made landfall in Fortune, Newfoundland.
Meteorologist Bob Robichaud says the potent storm touched down at about 8:30 a.m. AST (7:30 a.m. EST, 1130 GMT) as it continued to barrel north-northeast.
He says a swath of the province from Fortune, on the Burin Peninsula, all the way east to St. John's on the Avalon Peninsula was getting pounded with stiff winds and heavy rains.
Winds were still building, with the St. John's airport recording hurricane-force gusts of up to 81 mph (131 kph), while waves were reaching 10 yards (meters) at an offshore buoy.
There were widespread power outages in St. John's and communities along the southeastern coast of the Avalon Peninsula.
Heavy rains also drenched province's western portion.
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