La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico - Hurricane Newton roared into Mexico's Baja Peninsula on Tuesday morning with winds of 90 mph, forcing some 14,000 tourists in Los Cabos resorts to take refuge in their hotels.

The storm was generating hurricane-force winds 40 miles from its center as it barreled toward the Gulf of California on Monday night, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Tropical-storm warnings were in place farther north up the coast, but hurricane warnings were put into in effect across the resorts of Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo.

With a storm surge expected to hit, schools were shut down and officials evacuated low-lying areas and opened more than 50 shelters with capacity for 16,000 people. Local airports closed late Monday, while small boats were barred from using the ports.

The powerful storm was packing winds of 145 kilometers (90 miles) an hour when it made landfall Tuesday morning at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula.

Newton's winds broke some hotel windows but the 14,000 tourists in Los Cabos were "safe" in rooms made to shelter them within the facilities, said state tourism secretary Genaro Ruiz Hernandez.

There were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries, though some hotel windows were broken and power was knocked out in some areas.

Newton became only the seventh hurricane since 1971 to make landfall near Los Cabos, Mexico. Hurricane Odile, which struck just over two years ago, was the strongest hurricane on record there.

After passing over the resort area, Newton swept onto the Gulf of California, then made landfall for a second time Wednesday on Mexico's mainland near Bahia Kino before weakening to a tropical storm. At least five deaths are being blamed on the hurricane. Three others remain missing.