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Gulf of Mexico on hurricane alert Storm heads to Texas and Mexico
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South Texas and the Mexican coast are bracing for a potential hurricane as Tropical Storm Dolly bears down on the Gulf of Mexico. US forecasters have issued hurricane warnings for parts of the Texan and Mexican coasts as Tropical Storm Dolly moves across the Gulf of Mexico.
The US issued a hurricane watch for Texas from Brownsville to Port O'Connor while Mexico mounted a watch from Rio San Fernando up to the US border. A warning is in effect from Brownsville to Port O'Connor in Texas and along Mexico's north-east coast from Rio San Fernando north to the US border.
The watch means hurricane conditions can be expected within 36 hours. Hurricane conditions could be expected within the next 24 hours, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
Some oil workers were brought in from their platforms in the Gulf as a precaution on Sunday. Dolly is expected to reach land later on Tuesday or early Wednesday.
Dolly drenched popular tourist resorts on Mexico's Caribbean coast overnight but caused no damage, Reuters reports. At 0900 GMT on Tuesday the centre of Dolly was located about 295 miles (475km) south-east of Brownsville, the National Hurricane Center said.
A storm warning issued for Cancun over the weekend was lifted and all ports and airports were operating normally, the news agency says. Maximum sustained winds were close to 60mph (95km/h).
As of 1500 GMT, the centre of the tropical storm was located about 55 miles (88.5km) north-northeast of Progreso, Mexico. "Dolly is expected to become a hurricane prior to landfall," the NHC said.
Maximum sustained winds were close to 50mph (80km/h). Dolly drenched popular tourist resorts on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula at the weekend but caused no damage.
The governor of Texas, Rick Perry, has put 1,200 National Guard troops and other emergency crews on alert.
The NHC has forecast that this year's hurricane season, which runs until November, could be especially active with up to nine hurricanes and 12 tropical storms.