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Tropical Storm Gordon Expected To Reach Alabama Tuesday
Tropical Storm Gordon is expected to produce total rain accumulations of 4 to 6 inches over southern Alabama this week.
MOBILE, AL - Tropical Storm Gordon swept through the Florida Keys and into the Gulf of Mexico Monday, and is expected to reach Alabama by Tuesday. Gordon developed into a tropical storm near the upper Florida Keys on Monday morning. In its 5 p.m. advisory, the hurricane center extended the storm surge warning eastward to Dauphin Island. A Hurricane Warning has been issued from the mouth of the Pearl River to the Alabama-Florida border.
Gordon is expected to produce total rain accumulations of 4 to 6 inches over southern Alabama, southern and central Mississippi, and southeastern and northeastern Louisiana, with isolated maximum amounts of 8 inches through late Thursday.
Storm surge could reach 3 to 5 feet along Shell Beach to Dauphin Island, Alabama; 2 to 4 feet along Navarre, Florida to Dauphin Island, including Mobile Bay; 2 to 4 feet along Shell Beach to the mouth of the Mississippi River and 1 to 2 feet from the mouth of the Mississippi River to the Louisiana-Texas border.
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Based on the current forecast track of Gordon, limited rainfall totals across much of Central Alabama, with the highest totals and associated flood threat across coastal AL, westward into MS and LA. pic.twitter.com/x7vmdB3Kdn
— NWS Birmingham (@NWSBirmingham) September 3, 2018
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