First Named Tropical Storm 2024. Severe weather team 2 meteorologist brian monahan says. Tropical storm alberto formed wednesday in the western gulf of mexico.

Alberto is the first named storm of what’s expected to be an especially active season for hurricanes in the atlantic ocean, which also include storms that form in the gulf of mexico and caribbean. Tropical storm alberto, the first named storm of the 2024 atlantic hurricane season, made landfall in mexico on thursday morning and brought rain and flooding in.