 Texas and Louisiana preparing for a tropical storm barrel to make landfall late Sunday or early Monday, possibly as a Category 1 hurricane. Fox meteorologist Rick Reichmuth. This storm broke all of our records for the month of June, for the month of July, the strength of the storm, where it started, which was all the way on the other side of the Caribbean about five days ago, battling Jamaica, then making landfall, and then making its way across the very flat