By Jason Hanna, Hollie Silverman and Ed Lavandera, CNN
A crawling Hurricane Sally is set to pound parts of the US Gulf Coast with rain for another day Tuesday before it makes landfall, raising fears that significant flooding is in store for coastal Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.”We’re talking about (potentially) a historic rainfall event” Tuesday through at least Wednesday, National Hurricane Center Director Ken Graham told CNN Tuesday morning. FOLLOW RAIN AND WIND MODELS
The center of Sally — a Category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph — was moving over the Gulf of Mexico and toward coastal Mississippi only at 2 mph early Tuesday.
It may not move over land until early Wednesday, perhaps near the Mississippi-Alabama state line, forecasters said. Read more from CNN
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