PORT-AU PRINCE, Haiti – Elsa was downgraded to a tropical storm on Saturday afternoon as it churned off southern Haiti, battering the area with hurricane conditions.
The weather system — the Atlantic’s first hurricane of the season on Friday, when it was a Category 1 storm — brought maximum sustained winds of 70 miles (110 kilometers) per hour and was moving northwest at 28 miles per hour, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
“There are fairly intense gusts of wind and light rain, but so far we have not recorded any damage,” said Jerry Chandler, director of the Haitian civil protection agency.
A hurricane warning was in effect for southern Haiti from Port…
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