ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Alberto, the Atlantic hurricane season's first named tropical storm, weakened to a tropical depression on Thursday after making landfall in Mexico, the National Hurricane Center said.
Alberto, which formed Wednesday from a tropical disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico, made landfall Thursday morning in Tampico, Mexico.
As it approached landfall, Alberto reached maximum sustained winds of 50 mph as a tropical storm. It has since weakened to 35 mph winds. The NHC says the system will likely dissipate over Mexico later on Thursday.
The NHC has been tracking the system for days as it gradually strengthened to tropical storm designation. Alberto is the first named storm in what's expected to be a busy 2024 Atlantic hurricane season.
All tropical storm warnings have been allowed to expire.
The storm will not have direct impacts on the state of Florida.
Alberto was expected to produce rainfall totals of 5-10 inches across parts and northern Mexico and usher in a storm surge along the coastline.
"The combination of a dangerous storm surge and the tide will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by rising waters moving inland from the shoreline," the hurricane center wrote.