06 June, 2017
The landfall location was close to Puerto Angel (pop. ~2,400) on a stretch of coastline with many tourist beach resorts. It had maximum sustained winds of 30 miles per hour (45 kph) and was moving northeast at 3 miles per hour (6 kph).
"Any wind damage issues would be sporadic and limited to the immediate coast", Miller said, "but flooding is the main danger and will exist regardless of any strengthening". Deadly landslides have already been reported as of late Thursday night, with houses buried and travel impacted in the state of Oaxaca.
"His family reports he went missing during the storm", he said.
Schools and higher education institutions in the state are closed on Friday June 2, according to the state's civil protection agency.
A river overflowed in the town of Santiago Astata, in the state's Isthmus of Tehuantepec region, damaging homes and displacing some 300 residents.
Localized flooding downpours may also soak the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz and western Campeche into Friday evening.
AccuWeather meteorologists anticipate heavy rainfall throughout the southern region this weekend, with the Interstate 10 corridor possibly getting up to 5 inches.
NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured a visible image of TD2E at 1145 UTC (7:45 a.m. EDT) as it lingered in the Eastern Pacific Ocean near southwestern Mexico. Tropical Depression Beatriz was still along the coast of southern Mexico and slowly moving inland. It is not forecast to redevelop.
