MIAMI – The National Weather Service announced on Sunday that two new tropical storms had formed in the Atlantic.
Tropical Storm Franklin was in the eastern Caribbean and it was the seventh named storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season.
Tropical Storm Emily was likely to become a post-tropical remnant low by Tuesday, according to NWS meteorologists.
Tropical Update 🌀 -- 5 PM ET Sun, Aug 20, 2023
— Michael Lowry (@MichaelRLowry) August 20, 2023
⛈️ Hilary near SoCal border, catastrophic flood threat thru Mon
⛈️ Franklin forms, flash flooding threat for Hispaniola
🌧 Gulf system (91L) to TX/Mexico, largely a rainmaker
👍 Emily weak, out to sea
📉 TD 6 peters out by tomorrow pic.twitter.com/55RmoRSLgf
Emily was moving toward the west-northwest near 10 mph, and meteorologists expected the motion to continue for the next several days.
Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 185 miles from the center.
The hurricane season was peaking on Sunday. Emily did not present a threat to land on Sunday afternoon, but Franklin presented a flash flooding threat to Hispaniola.
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