Hurricane Sally has made landfall on Alabama's Gulf Coast as a category two storm after winds intensified overnight.
Hurricane Sally has barrelled into the US Gulf Coast, with forecasts of drenching rains that could provoke"historic" and potentially deadly flash floods.
The hurricane poses the risk of"catastrophic and life-threatening flooding" along portions of the northern Gulf coast, the Miami-based centre had warned late on Tuesday, adding it could dump up to 500 mm of rain in some areas. Hurricane Sally had been at a crawling pace of about three kilometres per hour, but was expected to pick up speed through Wednesday.
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