Tropical Storm Oscar is chugging toward the Bahamas after making landfall in Cuba as a Category 1 hurricane, killing at least six people
Tropical Storm Oscar chugged toward the Bahamas on Tuesday after making landfall in Cuba as a Category 1 hurricane, killing at least six people as it unleashed heavy rains on an island also hit by an unrelated massive power outage.
Oscar was located 70 miles (110 kilometers) east-southeast of Long Island in the Bahamas on Tuesday morning. The diminished storm had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph) and was moving northeast at 12 mph (19 kph), according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
It was expected to drop up to 4 inches (10 centimeters) of rain across the southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. A tropical storm warning was in effect for the southeastern Bahamas.
The storm made history as the smallest recorded hurricane, with a wind field of only about 6 miles (10 kilometers) across.
