The center of Tropical Storm Gordon made landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border Tuesday night. Meanwhile, Hurricane Florence was upgraded to a Category 2 storm in the open Atlantic.

Also, a tropical wave is expected to emerge off the coast of Africa in a few days, joining a low-pressure area that's expected to develop into a named storm by the end of the week.

Tropical Storm Gordon

Location: 35 miles south-southwest of Mobile, Alabama

Maximum sustained winds: 70 mph

Movement: northwest at 14 mph

The center of Tropical Storm Gordon was about 35 miles south-southwest of Mobile, Alabama, according to the 11 p.m. advisory from the National Hurricane Center.

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Gordon, the seventh named storm of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, is moving northwest at about 14 mph. A northwestward motion with some decrease in forward speed is expected over the next couple of days.

On the forecast track, the center of Gordon will move inland across the lower Mississippi Valley through Wednesday. A turn toward the north-northwest and north is forecast to occur on Friday.

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Maximum sustained winds are near 70 mph with higher gusts. Rapid weakening is forecast after Gordon moves inland, and Gordon is forecast to become a tropical depression Wednesday.

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Tropical storm-force winds extend outward up to 80 miles from the center.

A NOAA Coastal Marine Observing site on Dauphin Island, Alabama, has measured a sustained wind of 57 mph with a gust to 72 mph. A wind gust of 61 mph was recently observed at the Pensacola Naval Air Station.

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WARNINGS/WATCHES

A Storm Surge Warning is in effect for:

Biloxi, Mississippi, to Dauphin Island, Alabama

A Storm Surge Watch is in effect for:

East of Dauphin Island to Navarre

A Hurricane Warning is in effect for:

Mouth of the Pearl River to the Alabama-Florida border

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for:

Alabama-Florida border to Okaloosa-Walton county line

Hurricane Florence

Location: 1,260 miles east of Northern Leeward Islands

Maximum sustained winds: 100 mph

Movement: west-northwest at 12 mph

Hurricane Florence, the third hurricane of the Atlantic season, was about 1,260 miles east of the Northern Leeward Islands. As of 11 p.m., the storm was moving toward the west-northwest at about 12 mph, and this general motion is expected to continue through Wednesday night.

A northwestward motion is expected to begin by Thursday with Florence's forward speed decreasing by the weekend.

Maximum sustained winds have increased to 100 mph with higher gusts. Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 15 miles, and tropical storm-force winds extend outward up to 105 miles.

Some additional strengthening could occur overnight, but a slow weakening trend is forecast to begin Wednesday and continue through Friday.

That's not all

A broad area of low pressure with disorganized cloudiness and showers is centered a couple of hundred miles south of the Cabo Verde Islands.

Environmental conditions are forecast to become conducive for development, and a tropical depression is expected to form by the end of the week while the system moves west-northwest across the tropical Atlantic Ocean.

Formation chance through 48 hours: 40 percent

Formation chance through 5 days: 90 percent

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Farther east, a tropical wave is forecast to emerge off the coast of west Africa in a few days. Some development of the system is possible over the weekend while the wave moves westward over the far eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean.

Formation chance through 48 hours: near 0 percent

Formation chance through 5 days: 20 percent

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