MIAMI (Thomson Financial) - The National Hurricane Center on Wednesday issued a warning for the gulf coast of Texas as a Tropical Storm Erin inched towards landfall, as another storm named Dean formed in the Atlantic and headed towards the Caribbean.
Erin reached tropical storm status at 3.00 pm Wednesday, and the Florida-based Hurricane Center issued a storm watch for much of the state's gulf coast.
At 3.30 pm GMT, Erin's centre was located about 400 kilometres east of Brownsville, Texas, and some 480 kilometres northeast of La Pesca, Mexico.
Erin was moving in a west-northwest direction at about 19 kilometres per hour.
The storm had maximum sustained winds of 65 kilometres per hour, with higher gusts. Forecasters expected it to strengthen over the next 24 hours.
Meanwhile Tropical Storm Dean, which formed in the central Atlantic, gained strength and threatened to become the first hurricane of the 2007 north Atlantic season.
At 3.00 pm GMT Dean was located some 1,685 kilometres east of the Lesser Antilles.
It was moving at around 32 kilometres an hour towards the Caribbean on a path to rip through the islands of Puerto Rico, Hispaniola and Cuba.
The hurricane season normally extends from early June to late November, but US forecasters on August 9 warned that up to nine storms could still develop into hurricanes in the next months.
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