Hurricane Beryl made landfall on the Texas coast early Monday morning as a Category 1 hurricane, battering the Lone Star State with high winds, flooding, and power outages.
The storm made landfall near Matagorda, Texas, on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico at roughly 4 a.m. CDT, intensifying into a Category 1 hurricane just before hitting land. The National Hurricane Center said in its 8 a.m. CDT advisory that the storm presents “life-threatening storm surge, damaging winds and flooding rainfall” to residents in eastern Texas.
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