Storm to bring ‘major disaster’

Texas was last night warned to expect a “very major disaster” as Hurricane Harvey approached the US state’s coast.

Harvey was yesterday upgraded to a dangerous Category 3 hurricane and was expected to make landfall last night or this morning on the middle Texas coast.

The US National Hurricane Centre said Harvey had maximum wind speeds of 120mph. Forecasters are labelling it a “life-threatening storm”. The storm quickly grew on Thursday from a tropical depression into a Category 1 hurricane, and then developed into a Category 2 storm early yesterday.