Mexico hurricane warning dropped
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Satellite image of Tropical Storm Erika taken Saturday at 8:43 a.m. EDT.
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MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- The hurricane warning in place for the Mexican coast from La Pesca to the U.S. border has been canceled and replaced by a tropical storm warning, the National Hurricane Center said.
Earlier, the hurricane center canceled hurricane and tropical storm warnings for the U.S. coast as Tropical Storm Erika came ashore in northeastern Mexico.
Just before 11 a.m. ET, Erika's maximum sustained windspeeds were just over 50 mph (83 km/h), and the storm was traveling west at about 17 mph (28 km/h).
The center of the storm was about 55 miles (85 km) southwest of Matamoros, Mexico.
The NHC said that storm surge levels would begin subsiding as the morning progresses, but said flash floods and mudslides in elevated terrain were possible with rainfall reaching 3 to 6 inches or higher.
The center also said tornadoes were possible on the middle and lower Texas coasts.
