ALABAMA
The showers and thunderstorms that worked their way southward this evening had greatly diminished by midnight. Only light to moderate ones were still in progress and all of those were south of the Demopolis-Montgomery area.
HURRICANE ALEX
Sir Alex made landfall about 10 o’clock tonight on the North coast of Mexico about 110 miles south of Brownsville, Tex. He was a Category Two at landfall with sustained winds at 100 mph. He will continue westward deeper into Mexico and he should dissipate in the next one to two days. Isolated tornadoes are still possible overnight tonight including Extreme South Texas. Extremely heavy rain of 6 to 12 inches (with max amounts of 20 inches) will cause life threatening flash floods and mud slides. Widespread power outages reported in Extreme South Texas including the Brownsville-McAllen areas.
