Tracking the Tropics: Forecast cone, spaghetti models, alerts [Video]

TAMPA, Fla. — The tropics are not done yet. Potential Tropical Cyclone Nineteen became Tropical Storm Sara on Thursday afternoon in the Caribbean Sea.

Track the storm and its developments by using the tools below.

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See below for the real-time tropical tracker, spaghetti models and more.

This “cone of uncertainty” shows an area where the center of the storm could go, when and how strong it might be at the given time. Note that impacts from a tropical system do occur away from the center and outside the cone. 

Resembling spaghetti noodles, each line in a spaghetti model represents a computer’s best guess as to where the center of the storm will go. 

These …