(MENAFN) Thousands of residents in Florida have been evacuated from their homes as Subtropical Storm Alberto picked up strength as it headed north through the Gulf of Mexico, with forecasters saying it could bring life-threatening flood to Southern coastal states.
According to the US National Hurricane Center, the storm is about 165 kilometers south of Apalachicola, Florida, on the Gulf of Mexico coast and was expected to make landfall along the Florida Panhandle on Monday.
The first named Atlantic storm of the year, Alberto spun up days before the formal June 1 start of the hurricane season, and was packing maximum sustained winds near 105km/h which was expected to drop as much as 30 cm of rain, slamming an area from Mississippi to western Georgia.
The Miami-based hurricane center said that the storm will bring after that, powerful winds and heavy rains as it moves into the Tennessee Valley on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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