 Hurricane Alberto caused the worst flooding in western Cuba in 32 years . The first tropical storm and hurricane of the 1982 Atlantic hurricane season , Alberto developed from a tropical disturbance on June 2 in the southern Gulf of Mexico . It rapidly organized and attained hurricane status the following day , the earliest date for a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean since 1949 . Alberto weakened as it moved into the Yucatán Peninsula , but it re-strengthened over the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall near Punta Gorda , Florida , on June 10 as a Category 1 hurricane . The storm