Alex was a TS tropical cyclone that formed in the Gulf of Mexico in 2016. The storm reached maximum sustained winds of 139 km/h (75 kt) with a minimum central pressure of 978 hPa. Tracking across the Gulf of Mexicoin the North Atlantic basin (, it potentially affected the US Gulf Coast, Mexico and Cuba. The storm traveled from approximately 24.9°-75.3° to 57.0°-27.0°, crossing a range of 32 latitude and 48 longitude.