While a Gulf disturbance that moved into Texas on Friday seems to have run its course, Hurricane Erin in the western Atlantic intensifies.

The likely path of a disturbance, increasingly expected to develop into a cyclone, has encroached on Texas in recent days, National Hurricane Center (NHC) tracker maps show. Officials have warned that the disturbance presents the threat of heavy rain, flooding, and increased rip currents along portions of Texas' coastline.

The center of a tropical disturbance that flared up in the Gulf began to move across land on Friday, bringing heavy rainfall to parts of northeastern Mexico and South Texas.

Hurricane Erin is continuing to intensify as a Category 5 storm as it continues its northwestern path across the Atlantic. Live 5 First Alert Meteorologist Joey Sovine said the storm strengthened Friday morning to a Category 1 storm.

HOUSTON — A tropical disturbance in the southwestern Gulf now has no chance of developing into a tropical depression but is still expected to send waves of tropical downpours along the Texas coast into Saturday. As of Friday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center is giving this system a 0% chance of development.

A Gulf disturbance now has a 0% chance of becoming a tropical storm, but it could still  bring rain, high surf and deadly rip currents

Hurricane Erin is now a Category 5 storm as it rapidly intensified and threatens the Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico, then will move along the U.S. East Coast

Colorado State University experts released their final forecast for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season last week, on Aug. 6.

The longstanding hurricane rating system, the Saffir-Simpson Scale, only takes into account sustained wind speeds and not the full devastating impact of a hurricane.

An area of storms southwest of Texas, which was designated by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) as Invest 98L, now has a low chance of tropical development as it quickly approaches northeastern Mexico and south Texas but is still expected to drench the area with heavy rain Friday and into the weekend.