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Is Sally a Hurricane?

Sarah Jenkins • • 5 min read
Is Sally a Hurricane?

Hurricane Sally was a destructive and slow-moving Atlantic hurricane

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, which was the first hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. state of Alabama since Ivan in 2004.

Was Hurricane Sally a hurricane?

Sally was an erratic hurricane, both in its track and intensity, that made landfall along the coast of Alabama at category 2 intensity (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale).

Is Sally now a hurricane?

Sally, now downgraded to a tropical depression, is 50 miles southeast of Montgomery, Alabama and moving at 12 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 30 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center's 5 a.m. update, the final update the NHC will give on the system.

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