As of 2:00 a.m. EDT Thursday, Hanna was still a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds near 65 mph. Hanna is located near 23.7 north and 72.4 west or about 325 miles east-southeast of Nassau in the Bahamas.

Tropical Storm Hanna drenched the Bahamas and triggered deadly flooding in Haiti on Tuesday, as it headed for expected landfall in the southeastern USA later this week. Meanwhile, a new tropical storm, Josephine, formed off Africa, behind Tropical Storm Ike.