page_title: Timeline of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season
section_title: June
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season / Timeline of storms / June
caption_attribution_description: Tropical Storm Alberto formed as a tropical depression early in the morning on June 10, 2006, in the Yucatan Channel. Alberto gradually gathered strength as it took a slow track northward into the Gulf. By early morning on June 11, wind strength within the storm crossed the critical threshold of 39 knots (70 kilometers per hour; 45 miles per hour). Thus Alberto became the first named storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season. Although Alberto briefly flirted with hurricane status as wind speeds came close to the necessary 64 knots (118 km/hr; 74 mph), the system remained a strong tropical storm as of the morning of June 13, and it was projected to weaken as it comes ashore in northern Florida. This photo-like image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite on June 12, 2006, at 2:35 p.m. local time (18:35 UTC). The tropical storm did have hints of a spiral structure, but as in earlier satellite images, the bulk of the clouds and rainfall from the storm were east of the storm’s center. This large mass of clouds in the image appears over the Florida panhandle and mainland Florida, while the wind circulation center is located roughly 200 kilometers (120 miles) to the west of Tampa. Sustained winds in the storm system were estimated to be around 110 kilometers per hour (70 miles per hour) around the time the image was captured, according to the University of Hawaii’s Tropical Storm Information Center. However, the less-than-hurricane-strength winds did not mean that Alberto posed no significant hazards. Rainfall totals from the storm were predicted to be between 12 to 25 centimeters (5 to 10 inches), and the storm center was also expected to spawn tornadoes once Alberto crossed land. Drought-stricken Florida was looking for rain, but the heavy downpours predicted were also causing concerns about local flooding.
context_page_description: The 2006 Atlantic hurricane season was an event in the annual tropical cyclone season in the north Atlantic Ocean. Following the intense activity in the 2005 season, forecasts had initially predicted that the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season would be only slightly less active. However, activity was slowed by a rapidly forming El Niño event in 2006, the presence of the Saharan Air Layer over the tropical Atlantic, and the steady presence of a robust secondary high-pressure area to the Azores high centered on Bermuda.
  The season officially began on June 1, 2006, and lasted until November 30, 2006, dates that conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones develop in the Atlantic basin. The first storm in the calendar year was Tropical Storm Zeta, which arose in December 2005 and persisted until early January 2006, only the second event on record that a storm spanned two calendar years in the Atlantic. The first in-season storm to form was Tropical Storm Alberto on June 10; the last, Hurricane Isaac became a tropical storm on September 28, and dissipated on October 2.
context_section_description: June 1
  The 2006 Atlantic hurricane season officially begins.
  June 10
  1 a.m. CDT (0600 UTC) – Tropical Depression One forms 120 nautical miles (140 miles, 220 km) south of the western tip of Cuba.
  7 p.m. CDT (0000 UTC June 11) – Tropical Depression One strengthens into Tropical Storm Alberto.
  June 13
  12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 UTC) – Tropical Storm Alberto makes landfall near Adams Beach, Florida, with 45 mph (70 km/h) winds.
  June 14
  2 a.m. EDT (0600 UTC) – Tropical Storm Alberto weakens into a tropical depression.
  8 a.m. EDT (1200 UTC) – The remnants of Alberto become extratropical.
caption: Tropical Storm Alberto
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