 Hurricane Beryl has touched the shoreline in Texas. In Dallas, ABC's Jim Ryan. Coming off the Yucatan Peninsula, tropical storm Beryl began to gather power from the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. So that when it finally made landfall this morning near Matagorda Bay, Texas, it was a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 80 miles per hour. From here, Beryl will head northeast, dumping rain on at least 10 states through Thursday.