The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go is plac­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go un­der a Trop­i­cal Storm Warn­ing as of 3:00pm to­day. Si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vices is plac­ing Grena­da and its de­pen­den­cies un­der Trop­i­cal Storm Warn­ing. A Trop­i­cal Storm Warn­ing means that Trinidad and To­ba­go, Grena­da and its de­pen­den­cies can ex­pect Trop­i­cal Storm con­di­tions with­in 36 hours.

Trop­i­cal Storm Tomas formed at 3:00pm to­day with cen­ter lo­cat­ed near 10.9�N lat­i­tude 56.8�W lon­gi­tude or about 350 kilo­me­ters east of To­ba­go. Trop­i­cal Storm Tomas is mov­ing to the west-north­west at about 24 to 32 km/hr. Tomas is ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue on this gen­er­al track over the next 24 to 48 hours dur­ing which it is fore­cast to in­ten­si­fy as en­vi­ron­men­tal con­di­tions are con­ducive for strength­en­ing.

Max­i­mum sus­tained winds are near 75km/hr with high­er gusts. Trop­i­cal Storm force winds ex­tend out­wards up to 50 km main­ly to the south­west and south­east quad­rants. Min­i­mum cen­tral pres­sure is

990mb.

To­ba­go, Trinidad, par­tic­u­lar­ly North­ern Trinidad, Grena­da and its de­pen­den­cies will there­fore be most­ly ex­posed to Trop­i­cal Storm con­di­tions from about mid­night tonight. Tomas is ex­pect­ed to pro­duce to­tal rain­fall ac­cu­mu­la­tions of 75 to 100mm or pos­si­bly 125 to 150 mm over To­ba­go, North­ern Trinidad, Grena­da

and its de­pen­den­cies. South and Cen­tral Trinidad could ex­pe­ri­ence 25 to 75mm in some lo­ca­tions.

Sea con­di­tions are al­so an­tic­i­pat­ed to be­come very dis­turbed and ad­verse­ly af­fect ma­rine and coast­line in­ter­ests. Cit­i­zens and all con­cerned are ad­vised to close­ly fol­low the di­rec­tions and ad­vise of their Dis­as­ter Emer­gency Man­agers at this time. Adopt all

nec­es­sary mea­sures to pre­serve life and prop­er­ty.

Re­peat­ing Trop­i­cal Storm Tomas 3:00pm po­si­tion: 10.9�N lat­i­tude 56.8�W lon­gi­tude or about 350 kilo­me­ters east of To­ba­go. The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vices will is­sue an­oth­er bul­letin at 6:00pm lat­er to­day. Please re­fer to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vices web­site, www.metof­fice.gov.tt, for fur­ther de­tails and stay tuned to your reg­u­lar broad­cast me­dia.