Hurricane Beryl photos, videos show impact in Texas following landfall

Hurricane Beryl strengthened from a tropical storm back into a hurricane early Monday morning, making landfall along the Texas coast as a Category 1 storm. As it moved inland, Beryl unleashed severe weather, prompting water rescues, disrupting hundreds of flights, and leaving more than 2 million people without power and at least two dead.

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. Through the morning much of eastern Texas was inundated with “life-threatening storm surge,” torrential rain and powerful wind gusts of up to 84 mph in the Houston area, the National Hurricane Center said.

Shortly after landfall, the Weather Service office in Houston issued a tornado warning for multiple counties. The Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center also warned of the possibility of twisters from far east Texas into northwest Louisiana and far southwest Arkansas.