The National Hurricane Center says a hurricane warning has been issued for a portion of coastal Mexico due to Tropical Storm Erick

As of early Tuesday, Tropical Storm Erick was positioned about 410 miles southeast of Punta Maldonado, Mexico, with sustained winds of 45 mph and higher gusts. The NHC has predicted a west-northwest movement with Erick strengthening to hurricane status by Wednesday morning.

Tropical Storm Erick is strengthening in the Eastern Pacific Ocean some 265 miles southeast of Puerto Angel, Mexico, and is expected to rapidly intensify into a hurricane Tuesday night or early

June, including significant severe thunderstorms, flooding rain, tornadoes, a Mexico hurricane danger and, beginning later this week, a strong East and Midwest heat wave. We're covering it all here.

The cyclone is centered about 190 miles south of Zihuatanejo in Mexico’s Guerrero state, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.

Any hurricane or tropical storm threatening Houston or the Texas coastline draws power from the heat energy stored in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Just two weeks into the Atlantic hurricane season,

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