Eye over Brownsville, Texas

This is a hot link to the Intellicast Infrared Satellite shot showing Hurricane Dolly with the eye directly over the Texas Mexico border where the Rio Grande spills into the Gulf of Mexico. If you catch it later in the day it will probably be inland. The wide band to the right looks like it will probably bring heavy rains to the Louisiana Texas border area. We can use the rain so I hope it makes it this way.

CNN reports:

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The storm was packing steady winds of 100 mph and gusts reaching 120 mph, the center said in its 2 p.m. ET advisory.

The storm, the second of the Atlantic hurricane season, had moved out to 35 miles east of Brownsville, Texas, by 1 p.m. CT (2 p.m. ET), the center said. Earlier, it had been just 30 miles from the city.

It was expected to resume its push to the northwest soon, forecasters said. Watch coast pounded by wind and rain »

National Weather Service radar spotted at least one tornado in the Brownsville area on Wednesday morning. A tornado watch was in effect for a swath of southern Texas and some Texas coastal waters until 7 p.m.

The hurricane center said Dolly is expected to produce from 8 to 12 inches of rain, with up to 20 inches in some isolated spots, and widespread flooding is likely in the area.

It predicted coastal storm surges of 6 to 8 feet above normal tides.

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The land in the area where the storm hit is very flat. While people call the area the Valley, there are no hills, much less mountains on either side of the Rio Grande River in this part of Texas. There are some dried river beds or arroyos where some of the runoff can go, but most of it will have to be carried back out into the gulf by the river. Padre Island is also pretty low lying with sand dunes not much higher than the storm surge.