http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/tropical-threat-heightens-risk/53016886
Patricia has moved into the northwest Gulf of Mexico as a tropical rainstorm after barreling onshore with catastrophic force, which the major cities in southwestern Mexico escaped.
The rugged terrain of Mexico forced Patricia to rapidly weaken after it made landfall on Friday evening.
Despite weakening, the danger of life-threatening flooding expanded into the United States as a combination of Patricia's moisture and moisture from the Gulf of Mexico surged northward.
Patricia made landfall at approximately 6:15 p.m. CDT on Friday along the coast of southwestern Mexico near Cuixmala, Mexico, around 55 miles west-northwest of Manzanillo, Mexico, as a Category 5 hurricane.
Maximum-sustained winds were estimated to be 270 km/h (165 mph), making Patricia only the second Category 5 hurricane to originate in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and make landfall in Mexico. The other was an unnamed hurricane in 1959 that also made landfall near Manzanillo.
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