WATCH LIVE: Hurricane Hanna makes landfall on Padre Island

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Hanna is the first hurricane to make landfall in Texas since Harvey.

HOUSTON — Hurricane Hanna is the first hurricane to make landfall in Texas since Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

LIVE VIDEO ABOVE IS FROM OUR SISTER STATION, KIII-TV in Corpus Christi.

Hanna made landfall on Padre Island just after 5 p.m. Saturday with sustained winds of 90 mph. It is also the first hurricane to make Texas landfall in July since Hurricane Dolly hit the Rio Grande Valley in 2008.

Hanna continues to move west, but at a steady 8 miles an hour.

The KHOU weather team and National Hurricane Center are tracking the storm, as well as Tropical Storm Gonzalo which is expected to dissipate over the next couple days.

Get the updates on each below.

Hurricane Hanna

Hurricane Hanna made landfall just after 5 p.m. on Padre Island with sustained winds of 90 mph and continues to move westward at 8 mph.

Rain bands band be seen across the coastal area of Southeast Texas. Stronger storms are down towards the Coastal Bend, with a very strong band on the south side of Hanna, according to the National Weather Service. Storms in these rain bands can train over the same area, which could lead to flooding.

In Brazoria County, all beaches are closed to vehicles because of extremely high tides. 

In Houston, we may only get 1 to 3 inches of rain widespread through the weekend. Closer to the coast, we may get 5 inches of rain. This is an improvement from when the forecast track was farther north, and Houston was in the cone of uncertainty.

The Flash Flood Watch for most of our area has been cancelled. Only Galveston and coastal Brazoria counties remain in the watch

Tropical Storm Warning has been cancelled for the entirety of the upper Texas coast.

Tropical Storm Gonzalo in Atlantic

The second area that we are tracking is Tropical Storm Gonzalo. It is moving westward out of the Atlantic and into the Caribbean sea, but losing its punch.

A first glance at the cone looks like it could be bad news for the Gulf of Mexico, but the National Hurricane Center says Gonzalo is “tiny” and could dissipate over the weekend, making it not a major threat to land at this time.

As of the 4 p.m. update on Saturday, Gonzalo had winds of 35 mph and is moving west at 21 mph.

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