Hurricane Carlotta built up speed rapidly on Friday and now is a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of 105 mph ahead of landfall Friday night on Mexico's Pacific Coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center reported.
"Some additional strengthening is possible this evening, followed by weakening as the center moves along the coast," the center said in an advisory.
Carlotta had been a Category 1 hurricane with 85 mph winds earlier Friday.
Mexico issued a hurricane warning for areas between Acapulco and Salina Cruz. Hurricane-force winds reached 30 miles from Carlotta's center.
Flash floods and mudslides were feared with the forecast of 3-5 inches of rain in Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas -- and the possibility of up to 15 inches in some spots.
Carlotta, which was a tropical storm Thursday, is the first hurricane and the third named storm of the 2012 Pacific hurricane season.
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