Another Tropical Storm Hermine was formed in the western end of the Gulf of Mexico, becoming the eighth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, the east coast of Mexico strengthened in the past three hours, the winds 75 kilometeres per hour / 45 miles per hour.The U.S. National Hurricane Center said in a web site, before 7 A.M. Mexico City time, the Tropical Storm Hermine is forecast to strengthen futher before coming, near the Mexico – U.S. Border, and there where warnings in that area.

The center said in a note:”The center of Hermine is expected to approach the coast of northeastern Mexico or extreme southern Texas in the warning area early Tuesday morning”, the center also added “will raise water levels by as much as 1 to 2 feet above ground level along the immediate coast near and to the north of where the center makes landfall”.

Tropical Storm Hermine was 300 kilometers east southeast of Tampico and 450 kilometers south southeast of Brownsville, Texas, heading north at 17 kph.This tropical storm is in a similar location as Hurricane Alex, the first of the June through November hurricane season, which slammed into northeastern Mexico on June 30.Tropical Storm Alex forced the evacuation of rigs in the Gulf and halted offloading at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, which serves tankers in the U.S.

The south coast of Texas was put under a tropical storm warning from the mouth of the Rio Grande to near Corpus Christi, an indication winds of at least 63 kph are expected within the next day, according to the advisory.And the coast of Mexico from the U.S. border south to Tampico was also under a warning.

According to the Energy Department, the Gulf of Mexico is home to about 31 percent of U.S. oil output and 10 percent of natural gas production. The Gulf Coast houses 43 percent of the operable U.S. refining capacity.The hurricane center said that the Tropical storm Hermine, have a storm force winds reach 165 kilometers from its eye, may bring up to 12 inches, of rain to northeastern Mexico and south Texas.The center said:”These rainfall amounts may cause life-threatening flash flood and mudslides especially over the higher terrain of northeastern Mexico”

There are monitoring at the hurricane center the remnants of another Tropical Storm Gaston over the Atlantic, which it says have a 70 percent chance of re-forming into a depression or storm over the next two days. That system was about 640 kilometers east of the Caribbean’s northernmost Leeward islands at 8 a.m. Miami time, moving west at 24 kph.There are high rains in the area were forecast.

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