Forecasters say Hurricane Katia is making landfall on Mexico's Gulf coast as a Category 1 storm. Hurricane Katia off the coast of Veracruz, in interaction with the cold front No. Advertisement Hurricane Katia made landfall north of Tecolutla, between Tampico and the city of Veracruz, in eastern Mexico as a Category 1 hurricane late Friday night.The threat of heavy rainfall will continue into the weekend in eastern Mexico. The formation of three hurricanes developed at the same time through the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean is not unique, but it is not very frequent. Hurricane Katia is 185 miles east of Tampico, Mexico in the Gulf of Mexico. Katia, which had been swirling in the Gulf of Mexico for days, made landfall north of Tecolutla, the National Hurricane Center said -- bringing strong winds and heavy rain. This visible light image from NOAA's GOES East satellite shows Hurricane Katia in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico on Sept. 8 at 9:15 a.m. EDT (1315 UTC). Hurricane tracking maps, current sea temperatures, and more. 2 on the north of the Gulf of Mexico, is triggering heavy storms greater than 250 mm in Veracruz, torrential in Puebla, intense in Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo, Tlaxcala, Oaxaca, Tabasco and Chiapas, and from strong to very strong in the State of Mexico, Mexico City and Morelos. Hurricane conditions are expected within portions of the hurricane warning area by tonight or early Saturday, with tropical storm conditions expected within the tropical storm warning areas by later today. Katia rapidly strengthened into a hurricane on September 6, 2017.Katia quickly dissipated as it tracked inland Saturday morning.Rush Limbaugh Indicates He's Leaving Florida After Calling Hurricane Irma Warnings a Hoax Swells generated by Katia will continue to affect portions of the coast of southeastern Mexico during the next couple of days. It weakened and made landfall near Tecolutla, Mexico, as a category 1 hurricane. Keep up with the latest hurricane watches and warnings with AccuWeather's Hurricane Center. Hurricane Katia was the most intense hurricane in the Bay of Campeche since Karl in 2010.The eleventh named storm and sixth hurricane of the unusually active 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, Katia originated on September 5, out of a broad low-pressure area that formed in the Bay of Campeche. Meanwhile, the peak winds of Hurricane Katia, centered over the southwest Gulf of Mexico, had reached 100 mph — making it a Category 2 hurricane. Katia was a category 2 hurricane (on the Saffir -Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) over the extreme southwestern Gulf of Mexico. Katia first developed on September 5, 2017 in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico and did not move much over the next several days. Stay on top of breaking news stories with the ABC11 News App 8:00 PM AST Tue Jul 28 Location: 14.2°N 58.7°W Moving: WNW at 25 mph Min pressure: 1007 mb Max sustained: 40 mph Public Advisory #2A 800 PM AST: Aviso Publico* #2A 800 PM EDT: Forecast Advisory It is expected to make landfall along Mexico… The eleventh named storm and sixth hurricane of the unusually active 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, Katia originated on September 5, out of a broad low-pressure area that formed in the Bay of Campeche.
It has been maintained 48 hours in the Gulf of Mexico and remains parked, which will generate three accumulated days of precipitation,” he said.Very strong storms are in the forecast for Durango, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán, Guerrero, Campeche and Yucatán, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Chihuahua, Nuevo León, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Querétaro , and Quintana Roo, originated by a low pressure channel in the interior of the National Territory and tropical wave No. The state government said it will request that the federal Interior Secretariat declare a state of emergency for 40 of those municipalities in order to receive funding from the federal disaster relief fund, Fonden.Presumably the coronavirus pandemic will be over at some point. The center said Katia was stalling over Mexico’s Sierra Madre mountains, where it could bring 10 to 15 inches of rain to a region with a history of deadly mudslides and flooding. It weakened and made landfall near Tecolutla, Mexico, as a category 1 hurricane. Katia rapidly strengthened into a hurricane on September 6, 2017. Hurricane Katia was the most intense hurricane in the Bay of Campeche since Karl in 2010. Katia is expected to reach the coastline of oil-producing Veracruz state sometime between Friday and Saturday as a category 1 hurricane, said the head of Mexico… The nascent storm eventually peaked as a 105 mph Category 2 hurric However, Katia took a different direction - southwest towards Mexico.