Beryl felt like a 'category three, four, five': Storm chaser

(NewsNation) —  Storm chaser Kyle Cutten has claimed the effects of Hurricane Beryl feel vastly much terrible than its existent class 1 scaling.

Texas officials person issued preemptive catastrophe declarations for 121 counties, on with evacuation orders for immoderate areas. The confederate seashore expecting a unsafe tempest surge and flash flooding.

Cutten spoke to "Morning In America" from wrong the oculus of the tempest successful Matagorda, Texas, amid "100 mph winds."

Having covered class 4 and 5 hurricanes successful Louisiana and Florida, Cutten believes determination was small to nary quality with Beryl.

"I tin conscionable archer you arsenic being connected crushed level, it felt each spot of a feline 3, 4, 5," Cutten said. "Somewhere successful that range."

"I cognize it's lone a fewer miles an hr to abstracted them. I couldn't locomotion and that's lone happened to maine doubly before; some successful a 4 and a five."

Beryl has besides caused powerfulness outages successful much than 1 cardinal homes and businesses, per CenterPoint Energy successful Houston, aft making landfall aboriginal Monday.

"I'm seeing, conscionable unthinkable winds that are conscionable shredding roofs connected tiny physique homes," Cutten said. "We've got powerfulness lines down, we've seen dozens of powerfulness flashes and we've got trees down… dense flooding and surging connected the coastal side.

"I'm perfectly frightened for what's coming up for the United States of America. This I person ne'er seen thing similar this connected the missive B."