() –– Lisa weakened to a tropical storm hours after making landfall in Belize, the National Hurricane Center reported in its most recent update. The storm is now registering 60 mph winds with slightly higher gusts.
Lisa’s center is 60 miles west of Belize City and continues to cause heavy rain and gusty winds for Belize, northern Guatemala, and southeastern Mexico.
All hurricane warnings have been upgraded to tropical storm warnings.
Lisa made landfall at 5:20 pm (Miami time) this Wednesday about 16 kilometers southwest of Belize City, Belize, according to the National Hurricane Center. At the time it was a category 1 hurricane, with winds of 136 km/h. The system was expected to bring several inches of storm surge to Belize over the next few hours, and heavy rains to parts of Central America and southern Mexico over the next few days.
According to forecasts, Lisa’s passage could drop heavy rains of up to 150 millimeters, with local amounts of 250 millimeters in Belize and storm surges of more than two meters near and to the north of where the center of Lisa crosses the coast of Belize and the extreme parts of the southeast of the Yucatan Peninsula.
