Beryl was the first tropical cyclone that reached the hurricane category in the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season. It formed as a tropical depression in the Atlantic Ocean on 5 July 2018 at 1500UTC and it became a tropical storm on 5 July at 1830UTC. It reached a hurricane category 1 on 6 July at 0900UTC and kept this intensity until 7 July at 1500UTC, when it was downgraded to a tropical storm. Just before making landfall on the Leeward Islands, the system became an open trough. Nevertheless, tropical-storm-force winds were present over Dominica, Guadeloupe and Montserrat on 9 July at 0000UTC.