Beryl is moving across the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to be a hurricane by the time it makes landfall on the mid Texas coast Monday.
An oil tanker heads out and visitors crowd the beaches in Port Aransas, Texas , ahead of Hurricane Beryl 's arrival, Saturday, July 6, 2024. The storm continues to struggle to get more organized but is starting to find a more defined center of circulation.
Asit is forecast to strengthen into a Category 1 hurricane. There is a chance it will strengthen into a Category 2 before landfall Monday morning somewhere between Corpus Christi and Matagorda Bay. Currently, winds at landfall are forecast to be 85mph, which would classify the storm as a Category 1. A hurricane warning was declared for a large stretch of the coast from Baffin Bay, south of Corpus Christi, to Sargent, south of Houston, and storm surge warnings were also in effect. Other parts were under tropical storm warnings. Across South-Central Texas, higher rainfall amounts will be along and east of the center of Beryl, with much lower amounts west. Heavy rainfall is expected to produce a risk for flooding with 3-7 inches of rain expected across the Flood Watch area. Generally 0.5-1.0 inch of rainfall is forecast along the I-35 Corridor. Additional fluctuations to the rainfall forecast are possible. Models since Friday have consistently shifted the center of Beryl further east, and this trend has only continued on Saturday. With this track, impacts will be very minimal west of the I-35 corridor with more significant impacts likely east of I-35. These impacts would occur Monday as the center of Beryl moves inland, likely tracking between San Antonio and Houston. Because of the track, rainfall totals courtesy of Beryl will decrease significantly further west. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who is acting governor while Gov. Greg Abbott is traveling in Taiwan, issued a preemptive disaster declaration for 121 counties. “Beryl is a determined storm, and incoming winds and potential flooding will pose a serious threat to Texans who are in Beryl’s path at landfall and as it makes its way across the state for the following 24 hours,” Patrick said Saturday in a statement. Before hitting Mexico, Beryl wrought destruction in Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Barbados. Three people were reported dead in Grenada, three in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, three in Venezuela and two in Jamaica.
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