Ultimately, however, Beryl is destined to disappear. The storm has degenerated into a “post-tropical cyclone”, or remnant mid-latitude low-pressure vortex, and is moving through Canada. In its wake, more than 1 million Houston-area customers are still without power, and populations in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys and the Northeast are recovering from tornadoes and flooding caused by Beryl’s remnants.
The storm caused the greatest damage in Grenada, where Beryl was struck by Division 4 lightning on July 1. After some time it became Division 5.
Here we take a look back at Beryl’s exit and highlight key moments of its ancient march across the Atlantic, the Caribbean, and around the United States.
16 days ago: The preliminary nationwide Typhoon Heart Outlook noted an area of intense climate over the eastern tropical Atlantic. It emerged off the coast of Africa a generation ago on June 24. It was this tropical current that could eventually turn into Beryl.
13 days ago: On June 28, the tropical stream degenerated into a tropical depression – a precursor to a named storm. Initial advisories said the storm could eventually intensify into a hurricane after hitting the Lesser Antilles. The device was named Beryl at an 11 pm Atlantic event.
12 days ago: Just 24 hours after being declared a tropical depression, Beryl became a 75 mph Division 1 hurricane about 720 miles east-southeast of Barbados. A hurricane threat loomed for Barbados, with hurricane warnings issued for Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Islands and Grenada. (Granada is where Beryl will eventually encounter the first.)
11 days ago: At 5 pm on June 30 in the Atlantic event, Beryl was declared an “extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane”. Most sustained winds have been indexed at 130 mph. This made Beryl the farthest-southern Division 4 on record within the Atlantic, the earliest-forming Division 4 on record, and the most-intense hurricane on record at any time prior to September.
10 days ago: On the morning of July 1, Beryl hit Carriacou, Grenada, engulfing the island in its 140 mph headwind, or ring of destructive winds that encircled its heart. There was news of terrible loss. By 11 p.m. Atlantic Ocean, Beryl became a Division 5 hurricane – the earliest on record. It can be intense with winds of up to 160 mph in a single day.
9 days ago: On July 2, estimates estimated that the highest sustained winds within Beryl’s core reached 165 mph – 8 mph on the verge of Division 5 status. This made it the most powerful July hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic.
8 days ago: On July 3, Beryl struck southern Jamaica as a Division 4 typhoon, striking the southern shore of the island.
7 days ago: On July 4, the northern aspect of Beryl hit the Cayman Islands as a Division 3 hurricane. Its violent eyewall winds remained south of the island, meaning that Cayman primarily suffered the effects of the tropical storm.
6 days ago: On July 5, Beryl hit Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. It made landfall as a high-end Division 2 with winds of 110 mph, although it later weakened briefly due to the Tulum-related landfall.
5 days ago: On July 6, Beryl emerged as a tropical storm in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, weakening and losing most of its inner core. It spent a lot of the then generation’s time reorganizing.
4 days ago: By 11 pm on July 7, Beryl regained its status as a hurricane.
3 days ago: At 4 a.m. Monday Central, Beryl made landfall in Matagorda, Texas, as a Division 1 hurricane. A last-minute rush to the east put Houston in the eastern eyewall – the worst part of the storm. It swept the metro area with winds of up to 80 mph and drizzle falling to its foundation. About 25 lakh consumers misused electricity. Later in the day, the twister spread across northeastern Texas, southern Arkansas, and western Louisiana. The National Climate Providers issued 115 tornado threats, a July file shows.
2 days ago: On June 9, Beryl was downgraded to a tropical depression as it slid over the Indiana–Ohio border. Its leftover vortex helped spawn several tornadoes, including a destructive tornado in Mount Vernon, India that demolished a storehouse.
A generation in the past: As Beryl’s remaining low moved along the border of eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, the leftover spin helped generate tornadoes and several other tornadoes that swept across Pristine New York and neighboring states. In pristine New York, the National Climate Providers issued an environmental report of 42 tornado threats in a generation, bringing the total to more than 200 during Beryl’s three-day trek around the lower 48 states. Meanwhile, significant flooding affected northern Vermont with rainfall totals of four to six inches.
Thursday: Beryl has dissipated in a post-tropical low-pressure system northeast of Pond Ontario in southern Canada.
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