Galveston Bay

Forecasters had also issued a tornado warning for the area as well as a special marine warning for the area including the Galveston Bay.

The barge has a capacity of 30,000 gallons, but it was not clear how much oil had spilled into Galveston Bay, the Galveston County Office of Emergency Management said on social media.

The Galveston Bay Refinery is the fourth largest by capacity in the United States, according to the U.S.

It was 158 years ago that Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, with an executive decree that freed enslaved Black people.

Aerial footage from Houston television stations showed crews trying to put out flames at the Galveston Bay refinery, which is along a stretch of Texas coast that is heavily populated by petrochemical facilities.