MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Tropical Storm Elsa is a little stronger as it heads towards the Lesser Antilles. At 11 p.m., the center of the storm was located 260 miles east-southeast of Barbados.

At 11 p.m., Elsa was about 175 miles east-southeast of Montego Bay, Jamaica. Elsa was downgraded to tropical storm status with the 11 a.m. Saturday advisory.

The latest track from the National Hurricane Center, released at 11 p.m. ET Friday, still shows parts of the southeastern United States, including Florida, in Hurricane Elsa’s path.

TRACKING ELSA: Visit Storm Team 2’s Tracking the Tropics page Heavy rain will be focused well inland back towards I-95, but there will be bands of heavy rain along the coast.

This is the National Hurricane Center's official forecast track of Tropical Storm Elsa as of late Thursday morning, July 8, 2021. National Hurricane Center ...

Tropical Storm Elsa strengthened Tuesday afternoon into a Category 1 hurricane again as it heads toward Tampa Bay. A Hurricane Warning is in effect for Egmont Key to the Steinhatchee River.

Elsa broke a record Thursday by being the earliest fifth-named storm in the Atlantic when it became a tropical storm, breaking a record set last year by Edouard, which formed July 6, according to ...