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June 29 (Bloomberg) - As officials and residents in Texas braced for a strike from Tropical Storm Alex's most ferocious side, energy companies worked to evacuate offshore rigs. The storm, with maximum sustained winds of 70 miles (110 kilometers) per hour, was 320 miles southeast of Brownsville, Texas, heading northwest at 13 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said just before 1 p.m. Houston time.
"Strengthening is forecast during the next 36 hours or so before landfall and Alex is likely to become a hurricane later today," the center said in the advisory.
Brownsville began giving residents sandbags last night. Texas Governor Rick Perry declared 19 counties a disaster area to free up resources and activated 2,500 National Guard troops, eight helicopters and three C-130 transport planes in advance of the season's first storm.
The hurricane center tracks show the center of the storm passing just south of Brownsville tomorrow night, meaning the Texas city of 172,437 will be struck by the Alex's most powerful quadrant, according to the hurricane center. Hurricane warnings have been issued from Baffin Bay in Texas to La Cruz in Mexico.
Chance to Intensify
Alex is passing over a warm eddy of water in the Gulf and will have its best chance of intensifying in the next few hours, said Jeff Masters, co-founder of Weather Underground in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
"It is probably going to intensify into a Category 2 hurricane," Masters said by telephone. "It could weaken right before landfall, though."..MORE...
