Link: Dolly becomes hurricane, targets Texas - CNN.com.
At 8 p.m. ET, the storm, with maximum sustained winds near 75 mph, was centered in the Gulf of Mexico about 130 miles east-southeast of Brownsville, Texas, the hurricane center said. 
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A Category 1 hurricane carries sustained winds between 74 mph and 95 mph. Dolly was expected to strengthen before landfall, but the hurricane center was predicting it wouldn't be stronger than Category 1, Read said.
A hurricane warning was in effect for the Texas coast from Brownsville to Corpus Christi and for northeast Mexico from Rio San Fernando to the U.S. border. iReport.com: Are you ready for hurricane season?
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