The National Hurricane Center on Friday forecast Tropical Storm Gabrielle would grow into the season’s next hurricane this weekend while also eyeing a tropical wave off the coast of Africa that could become the season’s next named storm.

As of the NHC’s 5 a.m. advisory on Gabrielle, the system had 50 mph sustained winds located about 595 miles east-northeast of the Caribbean’s northern Leeward Islands and 945 miles southeast of Bermuda, headed west-northwest at 12 mph. Tropical-storm-force winds extend out 150 miles from its center.

Gabrielle became the season’s seventh named storm after it intensified from a tropical depression that formed earlier Wednesday.

Tropical Storm Gabrielle forecast path as of 5 a.m. Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (NHC)

“A gradual turn toward the northwest is foreca

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