NOAA’s National Hurricane Center issued a Public Advisory at 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Saturday, August 24, 2019, due to the presence of Tropical Storm Dorian over the Atlantic Ocean.
Tropical Storm Dorian (formerly Tropical Depression 5 and Invest 99L) is located 725 miles east-southeast of Barbados and is moving to the west at 12 mph (19 km/h).
NHC forecasters say that Dorian will make a turn toward the west-northwest on Sunday, and that motion is expected to continue through Tuesday.
On the National Hurricane Center forecast track, the tropical cyclone is expected to be near the central Lesser Antilles on Tuesday.
Spaghetti models are in good agreement that Tropical Storm Dorian will strengthen into Hurricane Dorian and continue on a west-northwesterly track towards the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Haiti.
The official NHC forecast track was shifted slightly north of the previous advisory track, and is close to the consensus model TVCN, which remains north of the NOAA HCCA corrected-consensus model.
Tropical Storm Dorian is a tropical depression on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 km/h), with higher gusts.
Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 25 miles (35 km) from the center of the tropical cyclone.
Gradual strengthening is forecast during the next few days, and Dorian is forecast to become Hurricane Dorian on Monday.
NOAA forecasts an ‘above-normal’ 2019 Atlantic Hurricane Season which runs from June 1 through November 30.
AUGUST 24, 2019 5:18 PM
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