The storm has fizzled into a subtropical depression as it hit the US state of Alabama.
The storm has fizzled into a subtropical depression as it hit the US state of Alabama.
Subtropical Storm Alberto has fizzled into a subtropical depression as it hit the US state of Alabama, but it is still expected to bring heavy rain and flash flooding even as winds dropped to 48 kilometres per hour.
At its height, Alberto, the first storm of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, blasted sustained winds of 105km/h.
“It’s slowly weakening, and it’s not regaining any strength,” David Roth, of the National Hurricane Center, (NHC) told Reuters news agency.
However, the NHC warned that Alberto will still deliver heavy, potentially damaging rains, with as much as 30cm in some areas in north Florida and Alabama through Tuesday night.
Anchor Mike McCormick and photojournalist Aaron Smeltzer died when a tree felled by Alberto fell on their van on Monday. They were covering the storm in the state of North Carolina.
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