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Tropical Storm Dolly approaches Mexico

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  • NEW: Dolly emerges in Caribbean Sea, heads toward Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula
  • NEW: Storm forecast to cross Yucatan and enter Gulf of Mexico by early Monday
  • Tropical storm warning for Yucatan Peninsula from Campeche to Belize border
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MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Tropical Storm Dolly headed toward Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Sunday evening while Tropical Storm Cristobal skirted the North Carolina's Outer Banks and headed away from the coast.

Tropical Storm Cristobal was off the coast of North Carolina at 10:15 p.m. ET Sunday.

A satellite image shows Tropical Storm Dolly near Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula at 10:15 p.m. ET Sunday.

Mexican authorities posted tropical storm warnings from the border with Belize northward to Campeche after Dolly emerged Sunday in the western Caribbean Sea.

At 8 p.m. ET, the storm was centered about 125 miles southeast of the resort island of Cozumel, moving northwest at nearly 14 mph with sustained winds of about 45 mph, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

Dolly's path would take it across the Yucatan Peninsula late Sunday and into the southern Gulf of Mexico by early Monday, the hurricane center projected. See Dolly's projected path »

Also at 8 p.m., Cristobal was moving northeast past North Carolina's Outer Banks with sustained winds of 50 mph.

As predicted by forecasters, Cristobal was heading away from U.S. shores. Forecasters said it would continue to do so into early Monday. See Cristobal's projected path »

The storm was centered 65 miles east-northeast of Cape Lookout, moving northeast at about 9 mph, and forecasters predicted that it would gain little strength in the next two days.

At 5 p.m., the hurricane center canceled a tropical storm warning from Surf City to Cape Lookout, but warnings remained in effect north of there to the Virginia state line. Video Watch forecast for Dolly, Cristobal »

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Cristobal evolved Saturday from a tropical depression that formed Friday.

The Atlantic hurricane season began June 1 and ends in November.

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