A Category-2 hurricane just struck a resort town in Mexico - now it's headed to the southwestern US
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The storm made landfall at around 2 am local time in the resort town of Los Cabos on the Baja California peninsula. Three people have died and some 14,000 tourists remain in Los Cabos after all flights out of the city were canceled, The Weather Channel reports.
It was a Category-2 storm when it came ashore, with 90 mile-per-hour winds and hurricane-force winds as far as 40 miles from its center.
Before the storm became a hurricane, it damaged as many as 70 homes in Acapulco in the state of Guerrero, according to The Weather Channel.
As NBC News spotted, the storm chaser Josh Morgerman put himself in Newton's path, posting updates to Twitter:
1:40 am. Just starting to crank. #NEWTON pic.twitter.com/liKkAR2Zaj
- Josh Morgerman (@iCyclone) September 6, 2016
1:50 am. Rumbling, roaring. Transformers exploding across city. We might lose communications soon. 991 mb. #Hurricane #NEWTON #CaboSanLucas
- Josh Morgerman (@iCyclone) September 6, 2016
2:10 am. Powerful winds coming in waves. Getting dangerous. #NEWTON
- Josh Morgerman (@iCyclone) September 6, 2016
2:15 am. Large flying debris! Crashing! Hurricane! #NEWTON
- Josh Morgerman (@iCyclone) September 6, 2016
2:30 am. Winds tearing violently at palms, shredding them. Bldg rumbling. Sound of tea kettle whistling. Angry as all hell. 987 mb #NEWTON
- Josh Morgerman (@iCyclone) September 6, 2016
3 am. Yes, I do believe we're in #Hurricane #NEWTON's eye. Calm occurring across #CaboSanLucas. Gonna walk around. pic.twitter.com/Lvszs5MXWO
- Josh Morgerman (@iCyclone) September 6, 2016
3:15 am. Calm. In the eye of #Hurricane #NEWTON in Downtown #CaboSanLucas. ~984 mb. pic.twitter.com/bEhXg41y6f
- Josh Morgerman (@iCyclone) September 6, 2016
After passing over the Baja California peninsula, Newton looks ready to make a second landfall on the California mainland Wednesday.
Wednesday evening, Newton should arrive in Arizona and New Mexico as a tropical depression, delivering up to five inches of rain to parts of those states.
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