FLHurricane.com: Category 2 Hurricane Alex Makes Landfall along Northeast Mexican Coastline

10PM EDT 30 June 2010
ALex has made landfall in Mexico with 105MPH winds, and a a minimum central pressure of 947mb. This is the strongest June Hurricane since Hurricane Alma in 1966.

SInce the core of Alex went ashore in a very sparsely populated area, most of the affects from the system will be the incredible amounts of rainfall.

7PM EDT 30 June 2010
Hurricane Alex is now a Category 2 Hurricane with winds of 100mph, it has a pressure of 950mb, and is moving toward the west. It will make landfall between 9PM-Midnight CDT.

6PM EDT 30 June 2010

Alex is a few hours away from Landfall just south of the border in Mexico. Flooding, Surge, and power outages are starting to show up in South Texas. The minimum pressure of the Hurricane has reached 951mb, which is extraordinarily low for a Category 1 Hurricane, in fact it could be a mid range category 2 now.

Alex is an extremely large hurricane, with a very large windfield.

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Brownsville Texas Area Forecast Discussion

Radar Recording of both Brownsville and Altamira, Mexico Radars

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Texas/South Plains Radar Composite

Brownsville Storm Rainfall Totals loop

Southeast Radar Composite (loop)

Microwave imagery of Alex (MIMIC)

Cameron County Texas, Scanner Audio Feed (Police/Fire/EMT) -- Brownsville Area

Cameron County, TX Emergency Operations Center

Southeast Texas Power Outage Map

Weather Observations:
Corpus Christi, Texas
Kingsville NAS, Texas
Harlingen, Texas
Brownsville, Texas
Matamoros, Mexico
Ciudad Victoria, Mexico
Tampico, Mexico

Local Media:

Brownsville Herald
The Monitor
South Padre Island Breeze
Valley Morning Star
KGBT 4 News
KRGV Newschannel 5
KVEO News Channel 23
KURV 710 News/Talk Radio

Chaser Twitter feeds:
Weatherzine/Jeff Gammons
Extreme Storms/Jim Edds

Webcams:
South Padre Island Isla Grand Resort Cam Alex (2010) Recording
South Padre Island Beach Cam Alex (2010) Recording

Rio Grande Cam in Mission, TX
Matamoros/Brownsvillle Cams

Live video from Mexico near projected landfall point.

South Padre Island Live Video Stream

11AM 30 June 2010 Update
Alex is still slowly strengthening based on Recon reports. According to the NHC discussion, It appears the northwesterly jog will end soon and it will head west, and perhaps a bit south of west later today.

South Padre Island Causeway is now being prepped to be closed in high winds.

Those in the Warning area need to use local officials and local media for more detailed information, there are some media links below.

7AM 30 June 2010 Update
Alex is slowly strengthening, in fact, recent recon reports indicate that pressure has fallen to 959, which means Alex may become a Category 2 hurricane today.

Forecasted track is still into Mexico, with most of the energy on the right (or northern side) of the center, those in Brownsville and the Rio Grande Valley will be seeing deteriorating conditions today into tonight.

Original Update
Alex has become the first June Atlantic hurricane since Allison in 1995 (Which was the first hurricane ever tracked on this website). The storm is headed due west toward Mexico.

Alex is a large storm and effects from it will be felt fairly far north, those in the Hurricane Warning area should not let their guard down. Forward motion of the storm appears to have slowed somewhat, but the official forecast takes Alex in land tomorrow night around 8-10PM.

It may have a chance to strengthen a bit more before landfall.

No changes with watches/warnings.

Hurricane Warnings still reach into South Texas around Baffin Bay, and effects from the storm will certainly be felt there, mostly rain and some storm surge. The landfall point in Mexico is where most of the impact will be felt. For those asking about the impact on the oil spill, the waves kicked up will likely move the oil around a bit and possibly cause oil to wash up on beaches further east where it hasn't yet, but it is difficult to tell.

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