ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic season, Hurricane Hanna, made landfall on Padre Island Saturday evening.
The National Hurricane Center upgraded Tropical Storm Hanna to Hurricane Hanna Saturday morning, making it the first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season.
Several tropical storm and hurricane warnings have been issued for much of south Texas and through the Texas coastline, along with storm surge warnings.
The storm received its upgraded status after a NOAA Hurricane Hunter flew into Hanna determining the storm's pressure had in fact dropped and the storm's maximum sustained wind speeds had strengthened.
Tropical Storm Hanna is the earliest "H" named storm on record, beating Tropical Storm Harvey on Aug. 3, 2005, which itself was a record-setting year.
It is roughly located over the western Gulf of Mexico moving to the west toward the Texas coast and is expected to make landfall on Saturday.
This system is no threat to Florida.
Tropical track
This is the latest "cone of uncertainty," which shows an area where the center of the system could go, when and how strong it might be at the given time.