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A hurricane warning was in effect from Grand Isle, Louisiana, to the Alabama/Florida border on Friday as Tropical Storm Nate—already a deadly storm in Central America—gathered strength over the warm waters of the Northwest Caribbean. Nate was speeding north-northwest at 21 mph over the Western Caribbean, and the storm is expected to pass very close to the tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Friday evening as a strong tropical storm. Continued strengthening is predicted on Saturday as Nate traverses the Gulf of Mexico, and Nate is likely to be a Category 1 or Category 2 hurricane on Saturday night when it makes landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast between Southeast Louisiana and the Florida Panhandle.