 Prior to landfall , the National Hurricane Center ( NHC ) initially forecast Rick to make landfall in southern Baja California as a high @-@ end Category 2 hurricane , prompting hurricane watches . Officials ordered several hundred residents to evacuate from low @-@ lying areas , although tropical storm warnings replaced the hurricane watches after the storm had weakened . Overall , the damage from Rick was significantly less than initially anticipated . In Mexico , three people were killed by the storm , one in Oaxaca and two in Baja California Sur . 
