Beginning as a tropical depression off the coast of Mexico on Monday, Boris escalated on Tuesday into the second named tropical storm of the 2014 Pacific season.

According to the most recent advisory from the National Hurricane Center (NHC), issued at 5:00 p.m. PST, Tropical Storm Boris was located near Latitude 15.4 North and Longitude 94.1 West, approximately 90 miles southeast of Salina Cruz, Mexico.

The storm is moving north at approximately five miles per hour and is expected to continue on this general trajectory over the next few days. The center of Boris is forecast to be near the coast of Mexico by Wednesday morning. As such, a tropical storm warning has been put into effect for the area stretching between Salina Cruz, Mexico and the border of Mexico and Guatemala.

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