Tropical Storm Hanna

Tropical Storm Hanna Likely to Strengthen When Crossing Bahamas
By VOA News
03 September 2008


Tropical Storm Hanna continues its push towards the Bahamas, after triggering flash floods in Haiti that killed at least 21 people.

Hanna is expected to produce as much as 20 centimeters of rain over the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos islands, and eastern Cuba.

At last report, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said the storm was centered near the Great Inagua Islands in the southeastern Bahamas, with maximum sustained winds of 95 kilometers an hour. The storm was moving eastward at about eight kilometers per hour.

It is expected to regain hurricane strength Wednesday and Thursday.

At 500 a.m. EDT the center of tropical storm Hanna was located about 90 miles southeast of Great Inagua Island and about 115 miles southwest of Grand Turk Island,3 Sept. 2008
At 500 a.m. EDT the center of tropical storm Hanna was located about 90 miles southeast of Great Inagua Island and about 115 miles southwest of Grand Turk Island, 3 Sept. 2008
Hanna produced heavy rains over Haiti earlier this week, causing flash floods in the northwestern town of Gonaives. Officials say some parts of Gonaives are under as much as two meters of water, with many residents climbing onto rooftops to escape the floods.

The storm is expected to near the southeastern United States by Thursday, and could make landfall by the end of the week in Florida, Georgia or the Carolinas.

On Tuesday, Florida Governor Charlie Crist declared a state of emergency.

Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Ike is expected to evolve into a hurricane later today, as it continues on a westward path toward the Leeward Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. And Tropical Storm Josephine is expected to pass just south of the Cape Verde Islands over the next day.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP.