Hurricane Sally Could Strengthen to Category 2 Before Hitting Mississippi and Alabama Coasts

Hurricane Sally Could Strengthen to Category 2 Before Hitting Mississippi and Alabama Coasts
Hurricane Sally in the Gulf of Mexico on Sept 14, 2020. CNN
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Hurricane Sally formed Monday morning and appeared to shift east, placing Mississippi’s and Alabama’s entire coasts under a hurricane warning while veering away from Louisiana, where the southwest coast is still recovering from Hurricane Laura.

Sally is threatening to make landfall Tuesday as a Category 2 storm. Data from a hurricane hunter aircraft shows the wind speeds strengthening, and the storm could hit the coast with 105 mph winds, just a few miles per hour shy of a Category 3 designation, the National Hurricane Center says.