MEXICAN PORT AWAITS REJUVENATED DOLLY.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Dolly spun across the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east and regained hurricane strength Thursday, threatening the oil and fishing port of Tampico with floods and punishing winds. Hurricane warnings were posted along Mexico's northeastern coast from La Pesca, 155 miles from the Texas border, south to Veracruz. Dolly was forecast to make landfall land·fall n. 1. The act or an instance of sighting or reaching land after a voyage or flight. 2. The land sighted or reached after a voyage or flight. this morning near Tampico, 210 miles northeast of Mexico City, the U.S. National Hurricane Center The U.S. National Hurricane Center, located at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, is the division of National Weather Service's Tropical Prediction Center responsible for tracking and predicting the likely behavior of tropical depressions, tropical storms and said. Maximum sustained winds reached 75 mph at 5 p.m. PDT PDT abbr. Pacific Daylight Time PDT Pacific Daylight Time PDT n abbr (US) (= Pacific Daylight Time) → hora de verano del Pacífico PDT and further strengthening was expected. The storm was centered about 215 miles east-southeast of Tampico, moving west-northwest at 10 mph and flinging its high winds as far as 175 miles from its core. Authorities evacuated 6,500 people in low-lying areas of Tampico as a precaution, a Red Cross official said. The port is prone to flooding, boxed in by the Gulf to the east and lagoons to the west. Tampico's was one of 37 Gulf ports closed because of high wind and waves. More than 450,000 people live in the city and neighboring Ciudad Madero. Petroleos Mexicanos, the state-owned oil company, shut down three major Gulf Coast oil-supply terminals Tuesday because of the threat. It reopened one, in Veracruz, on Thursday. Dolly briefly reached hurricane force of 74 mph as it whacked the Yucatan Peninsula on Tuesday. But its journey overland knocked its winds back to about 35 mph a day later. |
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