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Officials from the National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center are monitoring the evolution of a storm system in the Caribbean Sea to detect possible impacts on areas flooded by Hurricane Florence last month .
The system, known as Tropical Cyclone 14 as of Saturday night, was located in the northwestern Caribbean, 320 km southwest of the western tip of Cuba, according to the Hurricane Center.
The system is moving northwest around 6 mph and is expected to change direction and head north over the next two days, the Hurricane Center said.
"Maximum sustained winds are near 15 km / h with stronger gusts," said the Hurricane Center. "A reinforcement is expected in the coming days and the disruption should become a tropical depression Sunday and a tropical storm Sunday night."
Shea Gibson, a Charleston-based meteorologist from weather forecasting company, said in a tweet that, given the current trajectory of the storm, he thought that this could have "other negative impacts on flooded areas" Carolinas in Florence ".
Invest # 91L is now # PTC14 ….. on this track, everything that develops will probably have other negative impacts on the #Florence flooded areas of the Carolinas. pic.twitter.com/OPNNCNBLQe
– Shea Gibson (@WeatherFlowCHAS) October 6, 2018
The latest hurricane center forecasts show that the system will hit the United States as a tropical storm in the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday before moving north-east and ending Thursday in the Charlotte region.
Based on this track, the Weather Service office in Wilmington, which also oversees the flooded Grand Strand and Pee Dee areas in Florence, has a more optimistic view.
If the runway holds, the heaviest rains will fall to the west of the flooded areas, said Michael Ross, a meteorologist at the agency's office in Wilmington.
Officials continue to monitor the storm as it develops. The path it will take will become clearer as it crosses the Gulf of Mexico and approaches the United States.
Contact Gregory Yee at 843-937-5908. Follow him on Twitter @GregoryYYee.
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