Mexico City:
The waters off Mexico's Pacific coast were seeing double trouble Monday as Tropical Storm Elida emerged only hours after storm Douglas formed in the same zone, meteorologists said.
Elida was swirling 195 kilometers (120 miles) south of Manzanillo, Mexico at 1800 GMT, with maximum sustained winds of 85 kilometers per hour, according to the US National Hurricane Center.
The storm, moving in a northwestward at 19 kilometers per hour, was expected to generate wind and create ocean swells causing "life-threatening surf and rip currents" off the southwest coast, according to the NHC.
The storm should move toward the southwest Tuesday through Wednesday, with its center "near but offshore of the coast of southwestern Mexico," the Miami-based hurricane tracker said.
Up to eight to 15 centimeters (three to six inches) of rain were forecast for the western portions of the states of Colima and Michoacan, and over the southwestern portion of Jalisco.
Douglas, meanwhile, was expected to create no land hazards.
Churning 745 kilometers southwest of the tip of Baja California, the storm was packing maximum sustained winds of 65 kilometers per hour.
Douglas formed late Sunday a little further north and a few hours before Elida.
The storm was traveling toward the northwest at 15 kilometers per hour, with a slower forward speed expected over the next two days, the US hurricane center said.
Mexican authorities urged people to "exercise caution and remain alert" following rainstorms recorded in recent days.
In late May, Amanda, the first hurricane of the 2014 season - which runs until the end of November - killed three people in Michoacan and Guerrero states.
Last year, Mexico was hit simultaneously by hurricanes Ingrid in the Gulf of Mexico and Manuel on the Pacific coast, killing 157 people.