The National Hurricane Center's forecast for Tropical Storm Sally is little changed at 10:00 p.m. Saturday.
"Sally is moving toward the west-northwest near 8 mph," said Michael Brennan, branch chief of the Hurricane Specialist Unit at the National Hurricane Center. "A west-northwestward or northwestward motion is expected through Monday."
A decrease in forward speed and a turn to the north-northwest is expected on Tuesday.
"On the forecast track, the center of Sally will move over the southeastern and eastern Gulf of Mexico tonight and Sunday, move over the north-central Gulf of Mexico Sunday night and Monday, and approach the north-central Gulf Coast within the hurricane watch area late Monday and Tuesday," said Brennan.
The hurricane center expects Sally to be a Category One storm on the Saffir Simpson scale as it makes landfall, somewhere in the watch area on Tuesday.
