Posted at 10:15 a.m., Friday, August 29, 2003
Tropical storm upgraded to hurricane
By Jan TenBruggencate
Advertiser Staff Writer
The storm was upgraded overnight from a tropical storm to a hurricane. It was on a westerly course, still roughly 1,000 miles east of the Islands, but was expected to cross the 140-degree west longitude line tonight, passing from the eastern to the central Pacific.
Based on the latest National Weather Service tracking estimates, it will be weakening but will still maintain hurricane strength as it passes south of the Big Island at midday Monday.
For more information, visit the National Weather Service site at www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/cphc/.