MEXICO CITY, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Hurricane Karl slammed into the coast of Mexico early Friday afternoon near the major Gulf of Mexico port of Veracruz.
At 2 p.m. EDT, the center of the hurricane was about 15 miles west of Veracruz, the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported. The storm was moving west-southwest at 8 mph.
Karl had already softened from a Category 3 to a Category 2 hurricane by the time it made landfall and was expected to weaken further overland. The maximum sustained winds were 110 miles per hour, and an automated recorder in Veracruz harbor measured a 10-minute average there of 65 mph, the NHC said.
Hurricane force winds extended 25 miles from the center and tropical storm winds up to 90 miles out.
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