Though packing fierce winds of 140 miles (220 kilometers) per hour, Aletta was more than 500 miles from Manzanillo, Mexico and was on a northwesterly track away from the mainland, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.
It formed on Wednesday as a tropical storm but by Friday had intensified into a Category Four hurricane, one notch below the most dangerous storms on the five-point Saffir-Simpson wind scale.
"Swells generated by Aletta will begin to affect portions of the coast of west-central mainland Mexico and the west coast of Baja California Sur later today and will continue through the weekend," the hurricane center said.
"These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions," it added.
But the forecasters predicted the storm would rapidly weaken over the weekend and subside to tropical storm strength by Sunday.
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