Rain and strong waves hit the beach in the Mexican resort city of Manzanillo on Tuesday. The storm, which became a the Eastern Pacific season's first hurricane, was reduced to a tropical depression on Wednesday. (Miguel Tovar/Associated Press)

Andres, the first named storm of the Eastern Pacific's 2009 season, weakened to a tropical depression on Wednesday and is expected to dissipate overnight, forecasters said.

The storm, which became the first hurricane of the region's season on Tuesday, is located about 200 km west of Cabo Corrientes, Mexico.

It has maximum sustained winds of 55 km/h and is expected to continue weakening, said the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

"Andres is expected to dissipate later today or tonight," the center said in its 11 a.m. ET update.

Forecasting models predicted the storm would pass just south of the Los Cabos resorts at the tip of the Baja California peninsula Thursday morning.

Before Andres briefly became a hurricane on Tuesday, it swept through Mexico's southwestern coast as a tropical storm, killing at least one person.

Homes were flooded in Manzanillo and the resort of Acapulco, forcing people to head for government shelters. Tourists waited in hotel restaurants and at least one cruise ship delayed its arrival to Puerto Vallarta by one day.

A fisherman drowned Monday when choppy currents overturned his boat in a lagoon in Tecpan de Galeana, between Acapulco and Zihuatanejo, a state police report said.

With files from The Associated Press