- Florida’s Gulf Coast was under a tropical storm warning Monday in anticipation of Elsa.An estimated 180,000 Cubans have fled their homes as Elsa makes its way toward the island.Elsa is then forecast to move near or over portions of the west coast of Florida on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The National Weather Service extended a tropical storm warning for Florida’s Gulf Coast as far north as Tampa Bay on Monday as Tropical Storm Elsa slammed ashore in Cuba on a path toward the Sunshine State.
The National Weather Service said Elsa made landfall around 2 p.m. EDT. The storm was expected to move over west-central Cuba for the next several hours,