Tropical Storm Hanna Forms: Warning Issued For Honduras and Nicaragua Coast

Tropical Storm Hanna, the eighth named storm of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season, formed quickly Monday morning just off the northeast coast of Honduras and Nicaragua.

Tropical Storm Hanna Forms: Warning Issued For Honduras and Nicaragua Coast

Tropical Storm Hanna Forms: Warning Issued For Honduras and Nicaragua Coast

A tropical storm warning was issued by the governments of Nicaragua and Honduras for a small part of each country’s Caribbean coast. Tropical-Storm-Hanna-2014-002

Hanna is drifting toward the west-southwest and will move inland over northern Nicaragua in just a few hours. Given that, Hanna will not have time to strengthen sufficiently.Tropical-Storm-Hanna-2014-003

The main concern for Hanna will be heavy rain, flooding and mudslides over the next few days in parts of Honduras and northern Nicaragua, where up to 15 inches of rain may fall. Tropical storm-force winds are also possible through Monday afternoon until Hanna weakens inland.

Hanna flared up from the remnants of what was Tropical Depression Nine which first formed over the southwest Gulf of Mexico and Bay of Campeche on the evening of October 21.Tropical-Storm-Hanna-2014-004

Satellite-derived wind estimates helped pinpoint an area of tropical storm-force winds embedded in a flare-up of convection Monday morning, leading to the initiation of advisories from the National Hurricane Center.

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