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AccuWeather.com reports conditions will continue deteriorating in Brownsville and across deep South Texas through tonight as Hurricane Alex draws closer to the northeastern Mexican coast. Flooding rain is still the biggest concern for the region. The hurricane is expected to make landfall as a Category 2 storm north of La Pesca, Mexico late tonight (between 2 and 4 a.m. CDT Thursday). Alex will weaken rapidly as it moves inland through northeastern Mexico Thursday but continue to produce torrential rainfall into South Texas. Over 2 inches of rain already inundated Brownsville Thursday morning, and rainfall totals will continue to climb through...

Release Date: June 29, 2010 Release Number: HQ-10-128 » More Information on Texas Tropical Storm Alex WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today announced that an emergency exists in the state of Texas and that federal aid is available to supplement state and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from Tropical Storm Alex beginning on June 27, 2010, and continuing. Federal funding is available to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and...

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Hurricane ALEX ADV LAT LON TIME WIND PR STAT 1 30.60 -78.60 07/31/21Z 25 1010 TROPICAL DEPRESSION 1A 30.90 -78.60 08/01/00Z 25 1010 TROPICAL DEPRESSION 2 31.40 -78.90 08/01/03Z 25 1009 TROPICAL DEPRESSION 2A 31.60 -78.90 08/01/06Z 25 1009 TROPICAL DEPRESSION 3 32.10 -79.10 08/01/09Z 25 1009 TROPICAL DEPRESSION 3A 32.50 -79.20 08/01/12Z 25 1009 TROPICAL DEPRESSION 4 31.90 -79.20 08/01/15Z 30 1011 TROPICAL DEPRESSION 4A 31.70 -79.10 08/01/18Z 35 1010 TROPICAL STORM 5 31.70 -79.20 08/01/21Z 35 1010 TROPICAL STORM 5A 31.50 -79.20 08/02/00Z 35 1009 TROPICAL STORM 6 31.50 -79.20 08/02/03Z 35 1007 TROPICAL STORM 6A 31.40 -79.40...

OCRACOKE -- The season's first hurricane grazed the North Carolina coast Tuesday, scouring the Outer Banks with heavy winds and swamping them with fast-moving water. (Erin Lopez and Matt Caviness of the U.S. Coast Guard abandon their SUV in a flooded area of Buxton. They had just come from saving the life of a woman threatened by rising water. 'I'll trade a life for a car any time,' Caviness said.) The eye of Hurricane Alex, which strengthened to Category 2 Tuesday morning, came within 15 miles of Cape Hatteras but never made landfall. By midafternoon, it was headed out to...

Looks like the Outer Banks is about to be caught with their pants down! Hurricane Alex is now a category two (11:00 am est) and appears to be headed directly into Pamlico Sound. That puts the east side of the storm directly over Hatteras Island, which at this point is at the height of the tourist season. No evacuation orders were issued for this storm. Every one thought it would be a harmless little puppy that would remain offshore. Let's hope it makes a turn to the east right away. Otherwise, there could be trouble!!!