Category 2 Hurricane Delta has strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to unleash a dangerous storm surge, damaging winds and major flooding when it reaches the US late Friday – with eastern Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi in its sights, according to reports.

The storm was located about 400 miles south of Cameron, Louisiana, packing maximum sustained winds of 105 mph and moving at nearly 15 mph as of early Thursday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center said.

A hurricane warning extended across the Texas-Louisiana border to Morgan City, Louisiana, with Delta expected to bring heavy rains, strong winds and a 4- to 7-foot storm surge to coastal areas, according to the NHC.

A hurricane watch also has been issued for an area from High Island, Texas, to Grand Isle, Louisiana, it said — a distance of roughly 300 miles.

Residents along Louisiana’s coast and those living outside the protective levee system have been urged to evacuate.

“We have today to prepare ourselves and our families for the arrival of Hurricane Delta,” Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards told residents. “Let’s make it count.”

If the hurricane’s path shifts farther west, it could strike southwestern Louisiana parishes, which are still recovering from September’s Hurricane Laura. In June, the state was slammed by Tropical Storm Cristobal.

Swells generated by the hurricane were expected to begin arriving along the Gulf Coast — from South Texas to the Florida Panhandle and even western Florida, a span of around 1,000 miles — on Thursday, according to Weather.com.

When Delta reaches the northern Gulf Coast, it will be the 10th named storm to make a US landfall in 2020, beating a record that has held since 1916.

On Wednesday, Delta struck Mexico’s tourist enclaves on the Yucatan Peninsula, shaking residents and leaving behind a mess of overturned trees and shattered glass.

But the region appeared to have escaped major destruction and there were no reports of deaths as Delta headed out into the Gulf of Mexico, where it weakened before regaining its Category 2 status as it churned toward the US.

Delta was downgraded earlier from an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 as it neared the Mexican peninsula.

With Post wires