Tropical Storm Danny formed Monday afternoon off the U.S. East Coast and made landfall just north of Hilton Head, South Carolina, on Monday evening, the National Hurricane Center said.
As of 8 p.m. Eastern time, Danny’s sustained winds dropped from 45 to 40 mph, and crossed over Pritchards Island, about 15 miles east-southeast east of Beaufourt, South Carolina, and 50 miles southwest of Charleston, North Carolina, moving west-northwest at 16 mph. Tropical-storm-force winds extend out 35 miles, the NHC said.
The NHC maintained a tropical storm warning from Edisto Beach, South Carolina, to South Santee River, South Carolina.
“Rapid weakening is forecast, and Danny is expected to weaken to a tropical depression later tonight and dissipate by late Tuesday,” according to NHC senior hurricane specialist Stacy Stewart.
Tropical storm conditions are were hitting South Carolina on Monday afternoon. About 1 to 3 inches of rain was expected along the Georgia and South Carolina coasts. At the peak of high tide, storm surges of 1 to 3 feet may be possible from Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, to South Santee River, the NHC forecast.
Also on Monday, the NHC continued to monitor a broad area of low pressure associated with a tropical wave that rolled off of the African coast last week. The low is producing small clusters of showers and thunderstorms over the eastern tropics, the NHC said.
The 5-day tropical outlook as of 5 p.m. Monday, June 28, 2021 shows Tropical Storm Danny off the coast of South Carolina and a system in the Atlantic with moderate chance to form into the next tropical depression or storm.
Slow development is possible through the end of this week as it moves west at 20 mph possibly reaching the Lesser Antilles late Wednesday.
The low has a 20% chance of forming into a tropical depression or storm in the next two days and a 40% chance of doing so in the next five.
If the low develops it will be the fifth named storm of the year and receive the name Elsa.
