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🛰 With the sun coming out we can now get a visible image of #Sally. The storm is adding to major flooding already happening across western and central Florida, the agency said. Sally's effects are already being felt in Florida, where it was expected to create flash floods across the peninsula Monday, the hurricane center said. The predicted track has shifted consistently eastward in the past 24 hours, bringing a measure of relief to people in southwestern Louisiana, which is still recovering from Hurricane Laura in late August. Current projections show Sally coming ashore east of Gulfport, Miss. "Additional strengthening is forecast during the next day or so," the center said.įorecasters said conditions are too unstable to predict exactly where the storm will arrive. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft confirmed that Sally had strengthened into a hurricane, the National Hurricane Center announced at noon ET. This satellite view also shows smoke from massive wildfires in the U.S. Gulf Coast, while Hurricane Paulette moves away from Bermuda out in the Atlantic Ocean. It would need to develop winds of at least 111 mph to become a Category 3 storm - a major hurricane. Its maximum sustained winds were measured at 100 mph. "These rainfall totals are dangerous."Īs of Monday night, Sally was about 100 miles east of the mouth of the Mississippi RiverBiloxi, creeping west-northwest at 5 mph. "Slow movement means more rain," National Hurricane Center Director Ken Graham said in an online briefing. The storm will also bring a huge amount of rain - from 8 to 16 inches, with up to 24 inches in isolated areas of the central Gulf Coast and the western Florida Panhandle. The surge could be as high as 11 feet in some areas. Its forward speed will slow even further as it heads northwest and finally north toward landfall. Some coastal areas in Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and Alabama are already seeing floods from the slow-moving storm, with Sally meandering over the north-central Gulf of Mexico.

Hurricane Sally will likely make landfall on Tuesday or Tuesday night with sustained winds of at least 110 mph, making it a strong and dangerous Category 2 storm, the National Hurricane Center said. That’ll leave us to wait for our next rain chance, which won’t come this week.Hurricane Sally is forecast to make landfall on the Gulf Coast on Tuesday, possibly in the area east of Gulfport, Miss.

In fact, we probably won’t see any clouds directly associated with Sally either. Unfortunately, KC won’t be able to tap into any of that rainfall, with the track taking it well away from the metro. Possible total rainfall by 9 AM Thursday Future rainfall totals associated with Sally by Sunday afternoon In fact, up to one to two FEET of rain could fall around the Mobile Bay area when all is said and done. Thanks to her slow-moving nature, flooding is likely in very low-lying areas along the coast and well inland.

Stats on Sally as of 2 PM Tuesday Expected landfall near Dauphin Island, AL around 7 AM CDT WednesdayĪlong with storm surge and a risk of severe weather that includes tornadoes, heavy rain is the utmost concern with Sally. wind speeds have held around 85-90 mph with gusts upwards of 115 mph, and that’ll likely continue through landfall early Wednesday. Once it crossed the peninsula into the Gulf of Mexico, it picked up strength, becoming a hurricane on the 14th. Sally all started as a tropical depression back on September 11th, bringing some heavy rain and stronger-than-normal wind gusts to South Florida. Reds and purples indicate the strongest and tallest storms. Current movement is northwest at a whopping 2 mph! Hurricane Sally as of 1:45 PM Tuesday. Like Hurricane Harvey back in 2017, Sally has been slowing down as she makes her final approach, pushing back the ETA from Tuesday morning to Wednesday morning. Sally is slowly making her way towards the Alabama Gulf Coast, bringing rain, wind, and storm surge to areas like Gulf Shores, Mobile, Pensacola, and Destin to name a few. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.