Texas, Mexico Meet Dolly as Storm Heads South
Tropical Storm Dolly churned toward southern Texas on Monday, with forecasters expecting it to grow into a hurricane before hitting land near the Mexican border later this week.
The storm, with sustained winds of nearly 50 miles per hour (85 km per hour), emerged from the Yucatan Peninsula over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said that a hurricane watch was issued for the southern Texas coast,
Dolly was 420 miles southeast of the border, where it was due to hit on Wednesday near Brownsville, well away from sensitive offshore drilling rigs and production platforms.
The United States has largely escaped the past two Atlantic hurricane seasons, with just one hurricane -- Humberto in November 2007 -- making landfall on its coasts.
Published on July 22, 2008
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