Hurricane Alex – Day 4
Position: 23.1N 94.8W [10 PM CST 0300 UTC].
Movement: West [280°] near 9 mph [15 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 75 mph [120 kph].
Wind Gusts: 85 mph [135 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 175 miles [280 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 15 miles [25 km].
Minimum central pressure: 973 mb ↓.
It is 255 miles [415 km] Southeast of Brownsville, Texas.
It is on track to come ashore around the mouth of the Rio Bravo/Rio Grande late Wednesday night and is the first June hurricane since 1995.
Hurricane Warnings have been issued from South of Baffin Bay on the Texas coast to La Cruz on the coast of Mexico.
Tropical Storm Warnings from Baffin Bay North to Port O’Connor, Texas and from La Cruz South to Cabo Rojo, Mexico.
Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.
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