Afterward, Elsa began accelerating northeastward across the southeast and Mid-Atlantic states, restrengthening slightly due to its proximity to the Atlantic. Elsa then weakened back to a tropical storm, before making landfall later that day in Taylor County, Florida with maximum winds of about 65 mph (100 km/h). It then paralleled the west coast of Florida, briefly becoming a minimal hurricane again as it passed west of Tampa, early on July 7. On July 5, Elsa made landfall in Cuba, before emerging into the Gulf of Mexico early on the next day. On July 3, Elsa weakened back into a tropical storm before slowing down by July 4, as it passed just north of Jamaica. This made Elsa the strongest July hurricane recorded in the eastern Caribbean Sea since Emily in 2005. The storm strengthened to a hurricane around 12:00 UTC on July 2, as its center moved just south of Barbados, and then reached its peak intensity six hours later with maximum 1-minute sustained winds of 85 mph (140 km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 991 mbar (29.3 inHg), about 95 mi (155 km) west-northwest of Saint Vincent. Then, riding the south edge of a strong subtropical ridge, Elsa moved swiftly westward on July 1, while rapidly intensifying. Originating from a tropical wave that moved off the west coast of Africa on June 27, the primitive system become organized as a tropical depression on June 30, and strengthened to a tropical storm soon thereafter. It formed over the central tropical Atlantic, about 1,150 mi (1,850 km) east-southeast of Barbados its genesis was the second farthest east on in the month of June, behind the 1933 Trinidad hurricane. Hurricane Elsa was the earliest-forming fifth named storm on record in the Atlantic Ocean, surpassing Edouard of the previous year, and was the first hurricane of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. Part of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season Lesser Antilles, Greater Antilles, Venezuela, Colombia, East Coast of the United States, Atlantic Canada Hurricane Elsa at peak intensity after passing through the Lesser Antilles on July 2
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