BREAKING: Hurricane Sally strengthens to Category 2, with 100 mph winds, as it approaches Alabama, Florida.
People play in a flooded parking lot at Navarre Beach, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, in Pensacola Beach, Fla. Hurricane Sally is crawling toward the northern Gulf Coast at just 2 mph, a pace that's enabling the storm to gather huge amounts of water to eventually dump on land. PENSACOLA, Fla. — Sally has restrengthened into a powerful Category 2 hurricane as it veers eastward and crawls toward a potential landfall between the Florida Panhandle and Mobile Bay.
The National Hurricane Center said early Wednesday that the storm’s sustained winds had increased to 100 mph . The latest forecast track has the hurricane making landfall later Wednesday morning. The storm is barely moving, creeping forward at 2 mph . About 1 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Sally was centered about 65 miles southeast of Mobile, Alabama, and 60 miles southwest of Pensacola, Florida.
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