Hurricane Lidia dissipates after killing 1, injuring 2 near Puerto Vallarta
Lidia dissipated Wednesday after hitting land as a Category 4 hurricane near the Mexican resort of Puerto Vallarta, where one person was killed by a falling tree and two others were injured.
The hurricane blew the roofs off some homes and knocked over trees with winds as high as 140 mph before moving inland.
Laura Velázquez, the head of Mexico’s civil defense system, said one person died on the northern outskirts of Puerto Vallarta after being hit by a falling tree, and two others were injured elsewhere in the area.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Lidia’s winds were down to 35 mph as it dissipated about 145 miles north-northeast of Guadalajara, Mexico’s second-largest city and the capital of the western state of Jalisco.
Lidia made landfall on a sparsely populated peninsula and then moved inland south of Puerto Vallarta, still with winds of 105 mph.
Victor Hugo Romo, the head of the Jalisco state civil defense office, said several homes around the landfall area lost their roofs, and the Puerto Vallarta city government said about a dozen trees had been knocked down there.
Trees were also downed in the neighboring state of Nayarit.
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None of the officials reported any injuries or deaths.
The hurricane center said Lidia’s eye appeared to have reached land near Las Penitas, near the Cabo Corrientes peninsula.
Lidia remained a powerful hurricane with winds of 105 mph even after moving over land late Tuesday, with some highways briefly blocked in the region. Jalisco and Nayarit reported downed trees and power lines, as well as landslides over some highways.
Jalisco Gov. Enrique Alfaro said on social media platform X an hour and a half after Lidia made landfall that the storm had generated “extraordinary rain and high surf” in various places but that so far there were no reports of injuries or deaths.
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The state had 23 shelters open, he said. The Puerto Vallarta city government said a few dozen people had gone to shelters there.
In 2015, Hurricane Patricia, a Category 5 hurricane, also made landfall on the same sparsely populated stretch of coastline between the resort of Puerto Vallarta and major port of Manzanillo.
Local authorities canceled classes in communities around the coast.
The expected effects of Lidia come one day after Tropical Storm Max hit the southern Pacific coast hundred of miles away and then dissipated. Rains from Max washed out part of a coastal highway in the southern state of Guerrero.
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