MEXICO CITY, June 24 (Xinhua) -- The first hurricane of the season is now dissipating after causing heavy rain and winds in three of Mexico's Pacific coast states -- Jalisco, Colima and Baja California, an official from the National Meteorological Service (SMN) told Xinhua on Wednesday.

    "We are issuing our last warning, because the storm is disappearing, it is no longer even a tropical depression," said Alberto Hernandez Unzon, the SMN's deputy forecasting manager said. A tropical depression has maximum sustained winds of just below 63kilometers per hour (kph). "We are forecasting scattered rain in Sinaloa and clouds in Baja California Sur," to be the last of its effects.

    Late on Tuesday, media reported the death of fisherman Raul Rios Cortes, whose boat overturned as he was returning to port. Another person was injured in the same state by trees that were blown over.

    Schools were closed in Jalisco and Colima on Tuesday, but reopened on Wednesday, local media reported. Also on Tuesday, the government had ordered shipping halted off the shore of Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas.

    At its peak, Andres had maximum sustained winds of 120 kph with gusts reaching 140 kph, making it a category one hurricane on the Saafir Simpson scale.

    Global forecasting model are predicting that another tropical depression, a weather system that could later become a hurricane, could form in the Pacific during the next 120 hours, Hernandez said.

    "It is only a possibility and for the moment it is a long way from Mexico," said Hernandez. If such a storm is formed, it would appear on Friday or Saturday, and would be given the name Blanca, he added.

    The SMN is forecasting 23 such weather systems during this year's 2009 hurricane season, which ends in November. In the Pacific, these would be six tropical storms, four small hurricanes and two serious hurricanes. The Atlantic would have the same number and type of hurricanes, but one less tropic storm.