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Hurricane Sally Makes Landfall on US Gulf Coast

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   Forecasters are warning that Hurricane Sally will create catastrophic
   and life-threatening floods as it moves over parts of the U.S. Gulf
   Coast Wednesday.

   The National Hurricane Center says the powerful storm made landfall
   early Wednesday morning near the coastal town of Gulf Shores, Alabama,
   carrying maximum sustained winds of 165 kilometers an hour, making it a
   Category 2 storm on the five-tiered scale that measures a storm's
   potential destructiveness.

   [1]NHC has issued a hurricane warning for residents from the
   Mississippi-Alabama border to parts of the so-called "Panhandle" region
   of northern Florida as Hurricane Sally turns northeastward. Forecasters
   say the region will experience huge rainfall totals of 20 to 30
   centimeters throughout the day, with isolated areas expected to get as
   much as 88 centimeters, triggering "historic and catastrophic
   flooding."

References

   1. https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at4.shtml?start#contents

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