As the Gulf disturbance nears Texas, tropical moisture will surge Friday and Saturday in the Houston metro area, leading to increasing storm chances.

Hurricane Erin has officially formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday, Aug. 15, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Erin strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 85 mph on Friday evening and is more than 300 miles east of the northeastern Caribbean's Leeward Islands.

The environment around Erin is conducive for further development. While there is some dry air around the storm, the forecast still has this rapidly strengthening into a major hurricane by Saturday morning. As always, stay tuned with your First Alert Weather Team as hurricane season continues!

Hurricane Erin became the first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season on Friday, with sustained winds of 75 mph as it moves toward the Leeward Islands.

If this storm becomes more organized before it moves over land, it would become Tropical Storm Fernand. A potential tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico could form and make landfall in Texas or Mexico before Erin even threatens land.

Erin is within a day of becoming the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2025 season. It does not pose an immediate threat to Louisiana.

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.