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Flash Flood — Mobile, AL

Jun 7, 2020

Tropical Storm Cristobal moved west of the Alabama coastal waters on the afternoon of June 7th, 2020. Cristobal made landfall in southeast Louisiana at 5 pm CDT on June 7th with estimated maximum sustained winds of 50 mph. Cristobal then tracked northwest into inland Louisiana late on the night of June 7th into the morning of June 8th. ||Cristobal did not produce sustained tropical storm winds across inland areas, sustained tropical storm force winds were limited to immediate coastal locations i

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 904735). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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