Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Kirk weakened Friday as it pushed westward into the Caribbean on Friday with strong winds and heavy rains hammering Barbados and the Lesser Antilles, the National Hurricane Center said.
The center of the storm was located about 245 miles west of Martinique and 270 miles south-southeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico, the NHC said in its 5 p.m. EDT update. Kirk was moving west-northwest at 14 mph and had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph.