Hurricane Beryl made landfall along the Texas coast as a Category 1 storm early Monday, unleashing damaging winds and torrential rain that has caused widespread power outages and triggered tornado warnings.
Strengthening from a tropical storm back into a hurricane, Beryl had winds of over 80 mph as it made landfall around 4:30 a.m. near Matagorda, a coastal community between Corpus Christi and Galveston, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Minutes after landfall, the weather service office in Houston issued a tornado warning for multiple counties. Twisters will be possible from far east Texas into northwest Louisiana and far southwest Arkansas, according to the weather service's Storm Prediction Center.