Hurricane Beryl lashes Texas as a Category 1 with 100mph winds and dangerous storm surge: Live updates

After making landfall in the United States as a Category 1 hurricane on the coast of Matagorda, Texas at 4am CDT Monday morning, Beryl has now weakened to a Tropical Storm and is now traversing inland across eastern Texas.

Tropical storm Beryl was downgraded from a Category 1 hurricane after it started to travel towards Houston throughout the morning, causing hundreds of thousands of Texan customers to lose power within hours of Beryl arriving at the coast.

Officials have confirmed a person has died in Humble, Texas after a tree fell on a house, causing the structure to fall.

The National Hurricane Center has warned of heavy rainfall, strong winds and life-threatening storm surge to batter areas of Texas today.

More than a million people in Texas were placed under a hurricane warning , with Acting Texas Governor Dan Patrick declaring 120 counties to be disaster areas ahead of the storm and warned Beryl “will be a deadly storm”.

School systems, airports and major oil shipping operations have been suspended and will remain closed for the day on Monday.

Beryl has already left a trail of destruction as a Category 5 hurricane through Mexico and the Caribbean .