Tropical Storm Hermine formed in the southwest Gulf of Mexico on Monday and strengthened slightly as it moved toward the coast of northeast Mexico and southern Texas, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Tropical storm warnings were in effect from Tampico, Mexico to the south Texas coast from the Rio Grande River to Baffin Bay, the Miami-based center said.
On its current track, Hermine does not threaten the main concentration of U.S. oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.
Hermine, the eighth tropical storm of the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane season, was at 7 a.m. CDT (8 a.m. EDT) located about 185 miles southeast of Tampico, Mexico and about 280 miles southeast of Brownsville, Texas.
Its maximum sustained winds had increased to near 45 miles per hour, and tropical storm-force winds extended outward up to 105 miles to the east of its center.
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