Tropical Storm Beryl was picking up strength Sunday evening on its march toward the Texas coast as forecasters warned the storm would regain hurricane status and slam ashore early Monday, potentially as a Category 2.

The outer bands of Beryl began lashing communities along the Texas shoreline on Sunday, bringing rain and intensifying winds. The storm was projected to make landfall around the coastal town of Matagorda, about 100 miles south of Houston, but officials warned that the path could still change.

Coastal Texas is bracing for a Monday morning landfall of Beryl as a Category 1 hurricane, that could bring “life-threatening inundation, from rising water moving inland from the coastline,