MIAMI (BNO NEWS) -- Hurricane Alex made landfall in northeastern Mexico on Wednesday night as a category two storm with winds of 165 km/hr (105 mph), the Miami-based US National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported.

"National Weather Service doppler radar from Brownsville, Texas and Air Force Reserve Unit hurricane hunter observations indicate that the eye of hurricane Alex made landfall around 9 PM CDT (02:00 UTC) along the coast of Mexico in the municipality of Soto La Marina," the NHC said in a special bulletin.

"Maximum sustained winds at landfall were estimated to be 105 mph or 165 km/hr, a category two hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale," the NHC added.

(Copyright 2010 by BNO News B.V. All rights reserved. Info: sales@bnonews.com.)