Tropical Storm Hanna forms in Gulf of Mexico

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – U.S. Air Force hurricane hunters found on Thursday that a Gulf of Mexico depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Hanna.

Hanna is expected to strengthen Friday.

As of the 11 a.m. Friday advisory, Hanna was located about 260 miles east of Corpus Christi, Texas, with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph. It was moving west northwest at 9 mph.

The storm’s center is expected to move across the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico on Friday and make landfall along the Texas coast on Saturday.

A tropical storm warning was extended southward from Port Mansfield in Texas to the mouth of the Rio Grande. The warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected within 36 hours.

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