Article first published: Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, 4 a.m. ET

Article last updated: Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, 4 p.m. ET

System type: Tropical storm

System name: Gabrielle

The National Hurricane Center’s 4 p.m. Thursday advisory reported that Tropical Storm Gabrielle is in the Atlantic Ocean, 700 miles east-northeast of the Northern Leeward Islands. Packing maximum sustained winds of 50 mph, it is tracking west-northwest at 13 mph.

Tropical Storm Gabrielle is expected to strengthen.

Yesterday (Wednesday)

Yesterday (Wednesday) at 4 am, the National Hurricane Center published the first advisory for a tropical depression.

The system, which was named Gabrielle, became a tropical storm with sustained winds of 50 mph after intensifying from a tropical depression. Yesterday’s 10 a.m. report was the first to confirm the system’s new name.

Source: National Hurricane Center