At 11 a.m. EDT, the center of Tropical Storm Hanna was 305 miles northeast of the northern Leeward Islands, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm was moving west-northwest at about 12 mph.

Forecasters predicted that Hanna will eventually turn toward the northwest. But the five-day track puts the storm hundreds of miles east of the Bahamas during the weekend.

That path could eventually take the storm to the east coast of Florida.

Jamie Rhome, a forecaster with the center, said that Hanna could strengthen into a hurricane by Sunday, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported. He predicted that it would remain a Category One storm, the least violent hurricane.

At 11 a.m., Hanna's maximum sustained winds were 40 mph with tropical storm winds extending 50 miles from the center.