Update: The government of Mexico has discontinued all of the warnings for the coast of Mexico. There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect.

At 700 AM CDT, the center of Tropical Storm Patricia was located near latitude 23.2 North, longitude 102.2 West. Patricia is moving toward the north-northeast near 21 mph (33 km/h), and the cyclone is forecast to move quickly north-northeastward farther inland over central and northeastern Mexico today.

Maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 50 mph (80 km/h) with higher gusts. Rapid weakening is expected to continue, and Patricia is forecast to become a tropical depression later today and dissipate tonight.

Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 100 miles (160 km) from the center.

Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico - History was being made last night in the Northeast Pacific as Hurricane Patricia churned about 200 miles off the coast of Mexico, south-southwest of Manzanillo. With its 11 pm EDT Thursday advisory, the National Hurricane Center upgraded Patricia to Category 5, with top sustained winds of 160 mph and a central pressure of 924 millibars.

Hurricane warnings are now in effect for the coast from San Blas to Punta San Telmo, including Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo, with a hurricane watch and tropical storm warning eastward to Lazaro Cardenas.

Confidence is high that Patricia will make landfall in the Hurricane Warning area along the coast of Mexico as an extremely dangerous category 5 hurricane this afternoon or evening.

Update: Late Thursday night, an Air Force Hurricane Hunter flight captured some of the most extreme observations ever recorded in 70 years of reconnaissance activity.

Based on flight-level winds of 179 knots (206 mph), NHC upgraded Patricia's strength at 12:30 am EDT Friday to 185 mph.

The estimated surface pressure of 892 mb is the lowest on record for the Northeast Pacific, and it ranks #3 for the entire Western Hemisphere behind only Wilma (882 mb, on October 19, 2005) and Gilbert (888 mb, on September 13, 1988). A surface reading of 892 mb was recorded at Key West during the Labor Day hurricane (September 2, 1935).

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