Gordon barrels toward the Gulf Coast, and will likely land tonight as a hurricane
MIAMI — Tropical Storm Gordon continued to barrel across the Gulf of Mexico early Tuesday, headed for the north coast as a likely hurricane and leaving behind a soggy mess in South Florida.
In an 8 a.m. advisory, National Hurricane Center forecasters said the unexpected Labor Day storm should make landfall Tuesday night as a weak hurricane, somewhere between the Florida Panhandle and Louisiana. Storm surge warnings and watches extended across most of the northern Gulf Coast early Tuesday, along with hurricane and tropical storm warnings.
Gordon was located about 190 east, southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi, moving west, northwest at 15 mph Tuesday morning, with sustained winds of 65 mph.
Tropical storm force winds extend 60 miles from Gordon's center.
As it crosses the Gulf Tuesday, forecasters say the storm will encounter some upper level wind shear, the hurricane-smothering atmospheric winds that up to now have helped keep the season in check. However, those winds should not be strong enough to keep the storm from intensifying to a Category 1 hurricane.
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