By Corey Dickstein
Washington - Gulf Coast military installations (click here) from Mississippi to the Florida Panhandle were bracing Tuesday evening for the impact of slow-moving Hurricane Sally, which forecasters warned could drop record, life-threatening rainfall on the region in the coming days.
The Category 1 storm was expected to make landfall near the Mississippi-Alabama border late Tuesday or early Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center. Late Tuesday, Hurricane Sally was moving at about 2 mph in a slightly northeastern direction, threatening to cause flooding at military posts including Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi, and Naval Air Station Pensacola, Eglin Air Force Base and Hurlburt Field in Florida.
National Hurricane Center forecasters on Tuesday had issued hurricane warnings along the Gulf Coast from Bay St. Louis in Mississippi to Navarre in Florida. They warned the slow-moving nature of the storm could bring “historic life-threatening” storm surge and flash flooding to locations in those areas....
The Category 1 storm was expected to make landfall near the Mississippi-Alabama border late Tuesday or early Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center. Late Tuesday, Hurricane Sally was moving at about 2 mph in a slightly northeastern direction, threatening to cause flooding at military posts including Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi, and Naval Air Station Pensacola, Eglin Air Force Base and Hurlburt Field in Florida.
National Hurricane Center forecasters on Tuesday had issued hurricane warnings along the Gulf Coast from Bay St. Louis in Mississippi to Navarre in Florida. They warned the slow-moving nature of the storm could bring “historic life-threatening” storm surge and flash flooding to locations in those areas....
September 16, 2020
By Brett Clarkson, Robin Webb, Brooke Baitinger and Victoria Ballard
Hurricane Sally, (click here) a slow-moving catastrophe that was dropping historic amounts of rain on the Florida Panhandle and southeast Alabama, has put downtown Pensacola under three feet of water.
The storm came ashore at the Alabama-Florida line on Wednesday as a Category 2 hurricane and was pummeling the U.S. Gulf Coast with rain totals measured in feet, life-threatening storm surge and dangerous flooding.
And still more rain was expected as Sally inches slowly inland through Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said.
“Historic and catastrophic flooding, including widespread moderate to major river flooding, is unfolding,” the hurricane center said in the 11 a.m. Wednesday public advisory about the hurricane....
