BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) — Hurricane Beryl smashed doors, roofs and windows through the Caribbean Monday after making landfall on Grenada's Cariaco island as the first Category 4 hurricane of the Atlantic season in historically warm waters.

There are no reports of casualties or injuries so far, but communications across the region have been severely affected.

Shoes, trees and other debris were strewn across streets on the island of St. Lucia, south of Grenada, as winds of 240 km/h (150 mph) strewn banana trees in half, dead cows lay sleeping on grass, and fragile tin houses swayed.

“I feel very heartbroken right now,” said Vissel Clarke King as she assessed the damage to her shop, which was filled with water and sand in Bridgetown, the capital of Barbados. Beryl was moving through the southeastern Caribbean on Monday night and began moving toward the Caribbean Sea on a path that would take it some distance south of Jamaica and then toward Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 1 storm by Thursday afternoon.

Beryl had sustained winds of 250 kilometers (155 mph) on Monday night, approaching Category 5.

Beryl's vortex was located 925 kilometers (575 mi) east-southeast of Beta Island, Dominican Republic, and was moving west-northwest at 33 km/h (21 mph). Jamaica could see hurricane conditions by Wednesday.

A hurricane warning has been issued for Jamaica, and a tropical storm warning is in effect for the entire southern coast of Hispaniola, an island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

“Beryl is expected to become a very dangerous hurricane as it moves through the eastern Caribbean,” the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

The last hurricane of this size to hit the southeastern Caribbean was Ivan, which killed dozens of people in Grenada 20 years ago.