A Hurricane Watch is in effect for…
* Barbados
* St. Vincent and the Grenadines
A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for…
* Tobago
* Grenada
At 800 PM AST (0000 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Gonzalo was located near latitude 9.7 North, longitude 49.9 West. Gonzalo is moving toward the west near 13 mph (20 km/h). A westward to west-northwestward motion with an increase in forward speed is expected through the weekend. On the forecast track, the center of Gonzalo will approach the southern Windward Islands Friday night and move across the islands Saturday and into the eastern Caribbean Sea Sunday.
Maximum sustained winds are near 60 mph (95 km/h) with higher gusts. Some strengthening is forecast during the next day or two, and there is still a chance that Gonzalo could become a hurricane.
Weakening is expected after Gonzalo moves into the Caribbean Sea. Gonzalo is a compact tropical storm, and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 25 miles (35 km) from the center.
The estimated minimum central pressure is 1000 mb (29.53 inches).
