Gulf storm likely to become a hurricane
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June 30, 2010, Wednesday
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TROPICAL Storm Alex was expected to become a hurricane late yesterday as it swirled toward the Gulf coast of northern Mexico and southern Texas, where authorities were readying emergency shelters and distributing sandbags.
Forecasters said the storm's likely path would take it away from the site of the huge Gulf of Mexico oil spill off Louisiana's coast, but added that it might push oil farther inland and disrupt cleanup efforts.
Alex had maximum sustained winds near 110 kilometers per hour early yesterday, and the US National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, predicted the storm would grow into a hurricane sometime yesterday as it headed toward the US-Mexico border at the mouth of the Rio Grande river. Landfall seemed likely tonight.
A hurricane warning was posted for the Texas coast from Baffin Bay south to La Cruz, Mexico.
Workers were clearing ditches, filling sandbags and positioning heavy equipment and water pumps as well as preparing shelters.
Forecasters said the storm's likely path would take it away from the site of the huge Gulf of Mexico oil spill off Louisiana's coast, but added that it might push oil farther inland and disrupt cleanup efforts.
Alex had maximum sustained winds near 110 kilometers per hour early yesterday, and the US National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, predicted the storm would grow into a hurricane sometime yesterday as it headed toward the US-Mexico border at the mouth of the Rio Grande river. Landfall seemed likely tonight.
A hurricane warning was posted for the Texas coast from Baffin Bay south to La Cruz, Mexico.
Workers were clearing ditches, filling sandbags and positioning heavy equipment and water pumps as well as preparing shelters.
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