The first named storm of the Atlantic Hurricane Season made landfall in northern Mexico approximately 100 miles south of Brownsville, Texas. Hurricane Alex made landfall as a Category 2 Hurricane with the strongest winds near its center of circulation measured at 100 MPH. Its minimum central pressure was measured at 947 Millibars making Hurricane Alex the strongest Hurricane to form in the Atlantic basin since Hurricane Dolly in 1994. Hurricane Alex formed from a tropical wave that made its way across the Atlantic Ocean. When it reached the Caribbean Sea it brought torrential downpours to Puerto Rico, The Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba. The tropical wave slowly churned the waters of the Caribbean Sea until it developed a closed circulation surface Low Pressure. It was the dubbed Tropical Depression 1 and it began to slowly move west towards Mexico and Belize. The system intensified in to a Tropical Storm and it made landfall over the Yucatan Peninsula. The Tropical Storm brought flooding rains to Honduras, Belize and Mexico' Yucatan. Over land, the system weakened to a Tropical Depression however, Alex moved into the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico an quickly restrengthened to Tropical Storm status then Hurricane status making it the first Hurricane to form in the Atlantic since 1994. Hurricane Alex produced storm surge, torrential rains, damaging winds and spawned Tornadoes over south Texas. Now over land once again, Alex will continue to weaken and eventually dissipate however the remains of this system will continue producing heavy rain over south Texas then eventually over the Midwest.
