CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — Powerful winds and rain approached Texas Sunday morning as Beryl was expected to turn back from a tropical storm into a hurricane overnight and pound a long stretch of coast with heavy downpours, howling gusts, and dangerous storm surge.

A long stretch of Texas’s shoreline was under a hurricane waring as Beryl’s outer bands were forecast to begin lashing the coast Sunday. Landfall was expected early Monday and officials in several coastal counties issued voluntary evacuation orders while urging tourists along the beach for the Fourth of July holiday to leave.