Hours after Tropical Storm Hilary historically hit the west coast as the first Pacific storm system to hit the West Coast in decades, Tropical Storm Harold became the first Atlantic storm to hit landfall of the season when it reached Padre Island, Texas around 10 a.m. local time, CNN reports.
More than one million Texans are under a tropical storm warning, with an average of three to five inches of rain expected to hit the area, with as much as seven inches falling on specific areas over the next two days, with a storm surge between one- and three-feet hitting areas along the Rio Grande River to Sargent, as well as Baffin Bay, Corpus Christi and Matagorda Bay.