Elsa is spreading heavy rain into parts of the Southeast and tropical storm warnings have been extended into portions of New England:
It will bring heavy rain, gusty winds and a few tornadoes to the Southeast through Thursday.Elsa is tracking through the Southeast U.S. after its Florida landfall, and will spread heavy rain, gusty winds and the threat of a few tornadoes up the East Coast through Friday. Tropical storm warnings extend north to portions of New England.
-Central and eastern North Carolina into southeastern Virginia and from the mid-Atlantic into New England might see 2 to 4 inches of rain, with locally up to 6 inches possible.Rainfall ForecastTropical storm conditions will spread into coastal South Carolina and North Carolina Thursday morning. The strongest gusts will occur in thunderstorms or heavier bands of rain near the coast.
The system then became Tropical Storm Elsa six hours later on July 1, the earliest forming fifth named Atlantic storm on record in the satellite era . The old record wasunusually far south and east for so early in the hurricane seasonThe following morning, Elsa became the first hurricane of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season on July 2, almostElsa brought hurricane force gusts to Barbados and St. Lucia Friday morning.