 If you're along the coast from Brownsville to the Louisiana border, pay attention to this storm because you have about two days, the rest of today and tomorrow and some of Sunday, to prepare when it hits on Monday. The outer bands of the tropical storm are expected to hit Texas early Sunday morning. The National Hurricane Center says a hurricane watch is in effect for the Texas coast along with a storm surge watch. Barrel currently has maximum sustained winds of 65 miles an hour.