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Hurricane Beryl tracker: Live updates as Category 1 storm makes landfall in Texas; Houston under tornado watch

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Hurricane Beryl tracker: Live updates as Category 1 storm makes landfall in Texas; Houston under tornado watch

Hurricane Beryl made landfall early Monday morning in Texas on the Matagorda Peninsula, about 85 miles southwest of Houston. Beryl hit as a Category 1 storm with winds reaching 80 mph.

According to the National Weather Service, Beryl is expected to “bring very heavy rain, damaging hurricane-force winds and life-threatening storm surge to the Texas coast.”

Beryl has already traveled through the Caribbean as the earliest Category 5 storm ever recorded in the Atlantic, causing at least 11 deaths and widespread destruction. It then traveled across Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. Beryl is expected to weaken as it travels overland, becoming a tropical storm on Monday.

About 400,000 people in Texas are without power as of Monday morning, according to Poweroutage.us.

Live3 updates

  • Houston is under a tornado watch

    The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center has issued a tornado watch for the Houston area until 11 a.m. local time.

    “Embedded thunderstorms in the rainbands to the east of the center will pose a risk of isolated tornadoes through Monday morning,” the weather service warned.

    Houston is also in Beryl’s projected path though the Category 1 storm is expected to weaken by the time it reaches the city around midday.

  • More than 300,000 are without power

    Hurricane Beryl has caused widespread power outages along the Texas coast.

    According to PowerOutage.Us, a website that tracks power outages around the country, there are now more than 300,000 customers without power in the Lonestar State, most of them in Metagorda and Brazoria Counties, where Beryl made landfall.

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  • Beryl makes landfall in Texas as a Category 1 storm

    Hurricane Beryl made landfall near Matagorda, Texas, as a Category 1 storm early Monday, the National Hurricane Center said in its 5 a.m. ET update.

    The storm, with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph, is moving inland over eastern Texas at about 12 mph. It is currently located about 70 miles south-southwest of Houston.

    “Life-threatening storm surge and heavy rainfall is ongoing across portions of Texas,” the National Hurricane Center warned. “Damaging winds ongoing along the coast, with strong winds moving inland.”

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