The "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm, Hurricane Beryl barrelled across the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday afternoon toward the Caribbean's Windward Islands, where it is expected to bring life-threatening winds and flash flooding on Monday.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the first hurricane of the season was located about 250 miles (400 km) southeast of Barbados on Sunday afternoon, with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph (215 kph).
The center of the hurricane is expected to travel across the Windward Islands on Monday morning as a Category 4 storm, the second-strongest level on a five-step scale.
The NHC said, in its most recent advisory, that "Potentially catastrophic wind damage is expected where the eyewall of Beryl moves through portions of the Windward Islands, with the highest risk of the core in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Grenada."
Hurricane warnings have been issued in Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & The Grenadines Grenada and Tobago.
A tropical storm watch has been issued for Dominica, Trinidad, and parts of the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
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