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Beta, a slow-moving tropical storm, will bring flooding rains to Texas and Louisiana as well as raking offshore energy fields with high winds, but may not reach hurricane strength.
Beta’s winds will likely hold at 50 miles (80 km) per hour as it approaches the Texas coast, where it could drop between 5 to 10 inches of rain, including in flood-prone Houston, with some areas getting as much as 15 inches, the US National Hurricane Center said in a advisory at 5 am New York time.
The storm is forecast to come ashore near Corpus Christi. Category 1 Hanna also struck southern Texas this year, the first hurricane to make landfall in the Lone Star state since Harvey in 2017, and the first to hit in the month of July since Dolly in 2008.
“The expected slow motion of Beta will produce a long duration rainfall event from the middle Texas coast to southern Louisiana,†John Cangialosi, a forecaster at the hurricane center, wrote in an outlook. “Flash, urban, and river flooding is likely.â€