The NBC2 First Alert Hurricane Tracking Team continues to monitor the movement of Tropical Storm Beryl as it works northwest toward Texas at 12 mph.
The latest track projections have shifted east but regardless of the specific landfall location, impacts will be felt well outside of the forecast cone.
A hurricane warning and storm surge warning have been issued for parts of southeastern Texas. As of 5 a.m. Sunday, Beryl is producing maximum sustained winds of 60 mph with gusts as strong as 70 mph. The storm has been slow to restrengthen in the Gulf, but is expected to reach hurricane strength before landfall late Sunday or Monday morning.
Texas is bracing for numerous impacts, and conditions will begin to deteriorate this evening as tropical storm-force winds will already be starting. Beryl is expected to bring 3-5' of storm surge and hurricane-force winds. Because Beryl has slowed in forward speed, higher rainfall totals will be possible in Texas than what the storm produced throughout the Caribbean. Texas coastal regions are bracing for 5-10 inches of rain with isolated pockets of up to 15 inches.
After landfall, Beryl will quickly weaken, but remnant moisture and gusty winds will still work up through the Midwest through the next week.
Beryl has been a remarkably strong and resilient hurricane for this time of the year. Before entering the Gulf of Mexico, it set a series of records including being the earliest-forming Category 5 system in Atlantic Ocean basin recorded history.
Other than Beryl, there are no other areas of interest at this time. The season though is just getting started as the statistical peak of hurricane season is Sept. 10.
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