As of late Saturday evening, Beryl remains a 60mph Tropical Storm in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico. It continues to struggle to get more organized but is starting to find a more defined center of circulation. Overnight, Beryl will likely start to strengthen some, but remain a Tropical Storm. On Sunday, as it approaches the Texas coast it is expected to strengthen into a category 1 hurricane. There is a chance that Beryl 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.
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Models since Friday have consistently shifted the center of Beryl further east, and this trend has only continued on Saturday. With this track, impacts to our local area 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.
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For San Antonio, Beryl’s impacts look fairly low. A few outer bands may try to work into the San Antonio Metro Monday from Beryl, but the widespread tropical rain will likely stay just to the east. Areas west of San Antonio will see very little if any, rainfall from Beryl.
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There is potential for a rapid intensification of Beryl before making landfall.
As of 10:30 p.m. CT, Tropical Storm Beryl is 300 miles Southeast of Corpus Christi, traveling Northwest at 13 miles per hour.
Tropical-storm-force winds extend up to 125 miles from the center of the storm, with gusts reaching 54 miles per hour.
Heavy rainfall of 5 to 10 inches is expected along the coast from late Sunday through the middle of the week.
Local impacts are expected to be minimal, with some tropical showers and gusts between 20 and 30 miles per hour.
HOUSTON (AP) — Texas officials urged coastal residents to brace for a looming hit by Beryl, which was a tropical storm on Saturday but was expected to regain hurricane strength as it moves across the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
A hurricane warning was declared for a stretch of the state’s coast from Baffin Bay, south of Corpus Christi, to Sargent, south of Houston, and forecasters said the storm’s center was likely to approach the state Sunday and then make landfall the following day. Storm surge warnings were also in effect.
