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Warnings still in place!

Stay evacuated until “all clear” has been issued, for your own safety. It is not safe to return NOW!!! Atlantic Hurricane Beryl has made landfall at 4 a.m. CDT near Matagorda, Texas with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph, classifying it as a Category 1 hurricane. The Texas coast experienced wind gusts of over 90 mph in Freeport and San Bernard this morning, with Houston seeing gusts of up to 84 mph at Hobby airport, leading to widespread power outages. Additionally, moderate to locally major coastal flooding from storm surge has been reported on parts of the middle and upper Texas coasts. Rainfall totals in the Houston metro area over the past 24 hours range from 5 to 8 inches. Areas of the United States including Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky and Illinois; and remnants of the hurricane will result in extra-tropical rains to Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York–before moving into Canada. Atlantic Hurricane Beryl is the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, a storm that with its history, quickly intensified into a Category 5 storm very unusually early in the year. This rapid intensification was partly driven by abnormally warm ocean temperatures. These high temperatures were one of the contributing factors to NOAA’s forecast in May of an 85% likelihood that the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season would be more active than usual. Atlantic Hurricane Beryl made history by becoming the earliest Category 5 in the whole 100 years of record keeping (Hurricane Emily was the strongest Atlantic hurricane in that month in 2005: which recorded maximum sustained winds of 160mph), and the Category 4 Atlantic hurricane record, surpassing Hurricane Dennis which achieved Category 4 status on July 8, 2005. The effects of Hurricane Beryl have devastated the Caribbean including Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, Jamaica, Barbados, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago, with these regions experiencing the full force of the storm on Monday. St. Vincent, the Grenadines, and Grenada. This continues to be a very serious storm, so take proper preparation now. Be ready for storm surge, high winds, power outages and possible tornadoes. Visit: The NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center’s Facebook page for more info. More technical information as provided by cdema.org – Tropical Weather Systems.

Current tropical activity report directly from NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center & OWM:

Atlantic Hurricane Beryl – 07/08/2024

U.S. Watch/Warning

07/08/24 at 3:54 am

Information Courtesy of National Hurricane Center/NOAA

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