Tropical storm Franklin is moving north in the seas east of the Bahamas, according to the Cuban Institute of Meteorology (INSMET) in a weather report issued at 6:00 p.m. Thursday.
The storm has strengthened, with maximum sustained winds of 95 kilometers per hour and a central pressure of 998 hP, the warning adds.
As of 6:00 p.m., Franklin was 260 kilometers east-northeast of the Turks Islands and moving east-northeast at 13 kilometers per hour and it is expected to reach hurricane strength by Saturday on its course across the western Atlantic Ocean.
