This satellite image shows Tropical Storm Elsa mid-morning July 1, 2021. (CNN Weather) by: Derek Van Dam and Taylor Ward, CNN Meteorologists Posted: Jul 1, 2021 / 08:56 PM EST (CNN) — Tropical Storm Elsa is still several days from potentially nearing Florida — possibly around the site of the deadly condo collapse — as the third storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season to threaten land in the United States. “It is too soon to determine what, if any, impacts could occur there next week given the uncertainty in the long-range forecast,” Elsa strengthened Thursday morning into a tropical storm with winds of 45 mph. At 5 p.m. ET, it was 410 miles east-southeast of the Windward Islands and racing west at 29 mph.