Millions of people in Texas are bracing for Tropical Storm Beryl, which is expected to strengthen into a hurricane again as it makes landfall. NBC’s Priscilla Thompson reports for Sunday TODAY.
Tropical Storm Beryl is expected to make landfall on the Texas coast as a hurricane early Monday and is forecast to bring life-threatening storm surge and damaging winds, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm, which was a Category 4 hurricane when it devastated parts of the Caribbean island nations of Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, had weakened to a Category 2 by the time it made landfall Friday on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.
Rainfall of up to 15 inches is possible along parts of the middle and upper Texas coast and eastern Texas starting Sunday into Monday night, which may cause flash flooding. A combination of storm surge and tide might bring dangerous flooding to normally dry areas near the coast, the center said. Matagorda Bay and the area from Mesquite Bay to San Luis Pass could see 4 to 6 feet of storm surge, while Galveston Bay could see 3 to 5 feet.
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