Catherine Rusoff
This year’s first tropical storm warning hurricane season it was published on Tuesday morning as coastal communities in South Texas brace for an onslaught of heavy rain and possible flooding. The storm was developing in the southern Gulf of Mexico and was expected to make landfall as a potential tropical cyclone, according to the National Hurricane Center.
If the storm becomes strong enough, it will become the first named storm of the season: Tropical Storm Alberto.
The tropical storm warning covers coastal areas of Texas from Port O’Connor to the mouth of the Rio Grande and extends along the Gulf of Mexico coast. Rainfall associated with the potential tropical cyclone was also expected to affect large parts of Central America.
Although a map released by the National Hurricane Center shows the storm system made landfall shortly after midnight Thursday, forecasters noted that impacts would likely be felt on land before then. The latest forecasts indicated that the system would likely increase in strength over the next 36 hours before becoming a tropical storm.
“The disturbance is very large, with rainfall, coastal flooding and wind impacts likely to occur far from the center, along the coast of Texas and northeastern Mexico,” the hurricane center said in a statement Tuesday.
In Texas, the hurricane center said moderate coastal flooding could begin along the coast as early as Tuesday morning and continue through midweek. The situation was forecast to worsen on Wednesday for people in the tropical storm warning area.
The annual Atlantic hurricane season it officially began on June 1 and will last until the end of November, with most storm activity typically occurring during the last few months of that window, between mid-August and mid-October.
The National Hurricane Center upgraded what had been the first tropical storm warning of the current season to a tropical storm warning at 4 a.m. CT Tuesday. The difference accounts for time – Forecasters typically issue a “watch” when tropical storm conditions are possible in the impacted area within approximately 36 hours, and a “warning” when conditions become more imminent, approximately 24 hours in advance.
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