Hurricane Nicholas Makes Landfall in Texas
Strong winds, lightning and flooding battered the Texas coast Tuesday, September 14, as Hurricane Nicholas made landfall.
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READ MORE: Hurricane Nicholas officially made landfall early Tuesday morning along the southeastern coast of Texas.
The National Hurricane Center says Nicholas made landfall shortly after midnight local time (0530 GMT) on the eastern part of Texas’ Matagorda Peninsula shortly after midnight local time (0530 GMT) about 15 kilometers west-southwest of Sargent Beach.
The storm is carrying maximum sustained winds of 120 kilometers an hour, making it a Category 1 storm on the five-level scale that measures a storm’s maximum sustained wind speed and destructive potential. It is the sixth named hurricane of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season.
Nicholas already had begun to produce heavy rains and strong winds along parts of Texas and neighboring Louisiana before making landfall. Forecasters expect the hurricane to travel along a northeastern path outside of the city of Houston before moving into Louisiana during the day.
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