Hurricane Humberto has made landfall over the coast of southeastern Texas.
The hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of up to 130 kilometre per hour, had been expected to make landfall as a tropical storm but strengthened suddenly in the Gulf of Mexico and became the third hurricane of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season.
The US National Hurricane Center said the centre of the storm crossed the Texas coast just east of High Island, about 45 kilometres northeast of Galveston. There have been no reports of damage or casualties.
Because of its slow pace, the storm was forecast to dump up to 40 centimetres of rain.
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The storm is expected to plough through southeastern Texas and head east into Louisiana, where officials are preparing for flooding.
