Texas braced for flooding Sunday after Hanna roared ashore as a hurricane the day before, bringing winds that lashed the Gulf Coast with rain and storm surge to a part of the country trying to cope with a spike in cases of the coronavirus.The first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic cyclone season made landfall twice as a Category 1 storm on Saturday afternoon within the span of little over an hour.
The first landfall happened at around 5 p.m. about 24 kilometers north of Port Mansfield, which is about 209 km south of Corpus Christi.
The second landfall took place nearby in eastern Kenedy County. Hanna came ashore with maximum sustained winds of 145 kph. Hurricane Hanna makes landfall in coronavirus-battered Texas Forecasters downgraded Hanna.