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with Kevin Myatt

Hurricane Dolly nears Texas coast with 100 mph winds

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Satellite photo of Hurricane Dolly, courtesy of National Hurricane Center. Click here for bigger look.

Hurricane Dolly pumped up quite a bit overnight. It's now a Category 2 hurricane with winds about 100 mph. It has been lashing the south Texas coast with heavy squalls of wind and rain for hours, and there has already been some damage. It appears to be coming in a little north of Brownsville, which means that much of its worst fury will be focused on South Padre Island, a popular vacation destination. But that doesn't mean it won't still be a rough ride for Brownsville just to the south or even Corpus Christi several miles to the north. Dolly will likely drift westward inland, slowly dumping a ton of rain.

Click here for the latest from the National Hurricane Center

I will also soon have an update on our own local severe weather potential.

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Kevin Myatt works on the copy desk for The Roanoke Times and is its principal weather geek, writing a weekly weather column and advising the newsroom on weather topics. He helps guide students on a storm chasing trip to the central U.S. each May and was an editor for "Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States."

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