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Hurricane Alex churns across northeast Mexico
MATAMOROS, Mexico (AFP) - – Hurricane Alex, the first of the Atlantic season, battered northeast Mexico with torrential rain and violent winds Thursday after disrupting oil clean-up operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
Alex roared ashore late Wednesday as a Category Two storm with its eye 35 miles (56 kilometers) north of La Pesca, Mexico and 110 miles south of Brownsville, Texas, according to the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC).
However Alex by 0600 GMT the NHC said that Alex weakened to a Category One storm on the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale.
The storm, which packed still dangerous winds of 85 miles (140 kilometers) per hour, was expected further weaken as it moved westward over Mexico.
Mexican officials reported no immediate casualties, though a 23-year-old Mexican was killed when the storm first touched southern Mexico earlier in the week, and at least 10 people died as Alex passed through Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador over the weekend.
The Mexican navy kept some 2,000 sailors at their barracks in Tamaulipas, while around 17,000 people were evacuated from the coast, including all the inhabitants of the fishing town of La Carbonera, where wood homes are common.
Half of the Mexican border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, was flooded and telecommunications were affected sporadically, local officials said, and tornadoes were reported in southern Texas.
Several car accidents were reported during stormy conditions in Nuevo Leon.
Alex has already disrupted clean-up operations for the massive oil spill off the coast of Louisiana.
The storm traveled far southwest of the area worst hit by the massive BP oil spill -- the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida -- but its strong winds whipped up choppy waves, forcing a halt in skimming operations.
Large waves also pushed more of the huge slick onto fragile shorelines.
US officials said the storm interrupted 26.3 percent of crude oil production in the Gulf on Wednesday.
At 0600 GMT Alex was moving towards the west-southweast at around 10 miles (17 kilometers) an hour. "Alex is expected to weaken to a Tropical Storm later (Thursday) and dissipate over Mexico by Friday," the NHC said.
Alex's winds extended outward up to 35 miles (55 kilometers) from the eye, and tropical storm force winds extended out to 205 miles (335 kilometers), well into Texas.
The storm was forecast to dump between six and 12 inches (15-30 centimeters) over northeastern Mexico and southern Texas, with isolated maximums of 20 inches (51 centimeters).
"These rains could cause life-threatening flash floods and mud slides," the Miami-based NHC warned.
The storm surge generated by Alex was expected to carry ocean water "as far as several miles (kilometers) from the shore," while near the coast the storm surge will generate "large and destructive waves."
Alex is the first Atlantic hurricane to form in June since 1995, according to the NHC.
US President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency in Texas late Tuesday to help with any storm damage.
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