Washington, Jul 26 (UNI) Hurricane Hanna has made landfall in south Texas coast threatening a broad along the shores.
The storm has been tearing roofs off homes since Saturday night with winds up to 145 km/h.
According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), the storm's blistering winds were ripping up the Texas coast near Corpus Christi. A deadly storm surge was expected to hit a 300-mile area of the shoreline, from the town of Sergeant in the north to Port Mansfield in the south.
Hanna is currently a Category One hurricane, the lowest level on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale.
It is the first hurricane for the 2020 Atlantic storm season and was expected to be unlike any other in recent memory.
US President Donald Trump took to Twitter to inform that his administration was closely monitoring the storms. "We continue to closely coordinate with both states," he tweeted.
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