Heavy Rain, Flood Threat Increasing On Gulf Coast

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T​ropical Storm Oscar will spread heavy rain and gusty winds through the southeast Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Tuesday, but it remains no threat to the United States.

F​looding is the biggest concern in the southeast Bahamas and Turks and Caicos where rainfall totals might reach 3 to 5 inches, with localized amounts up to 8 inches. Tropical-storm-force wind gusts are possible in these areas, as well.

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O​scar Recap

Oscar had the smallest hurricane-force wind field on record in the satellite era when it developed rapidly on Saturday to the north of Hispaniola. It formed just hours after Tropical Storm Nadine, which tracked into Belize and southern Mexico on Saturday.

Oscar made its second landfall on Sunday around 5:50 p.m. ET along the coast of eastern Cuba as a Category 1 hurricane, after making its first landfall over Great Inagua Island in the southeast Bahamas just over 12 hours earlier Sunday morning.

T​he hurricane brought heavy rain and strong winds to both of those areas.

Jonathan Belles has been a graphics meteorologist and writer for weather.com for 8 years and also assists in the production of videos for The Weather Channel en español. His favorite weather is tropical weather, but also enjoys covering high-impact weather and news stories and winter storms. He's a two-time graduate of Florida State University and a proud graduate of St. Petersburg College.