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Tropical Storm Gabrielle Downgraded to Depression System in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic; Expected to Head North After Thursday Night

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Tropical Storm Gabrielle is now a tropical depression storm system.

The storm is still predicted to drench Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and other locations according to the National Weather Service in Miami.

"These rains could cause dangerous flash floods and mudslides over mountainous terrain," the center said.

The center of the storm was 80 miles south of Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic Thursday morning. It's then expected to move over to the Republic Thursday night. Gabrielle's maximum sustained winds weakened to 35 mph by late Thursday morning, which is four mph below the threshold for a tropical storm CNN reported.

Puerto Rico lifted its watches and warnings for the storm on Thursday, while the Dominican Republic switched its tropical storm warning to a tropical storm watch from Caba Engano to Cabo Frances Viejo.

The region was last hit with overwhelming amounts of rain in October when Hurricane Sandy rumbled through the Caribbean leaving 51 dead throughout Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.

After Thursday night, the storm system is expected to head out into the Atlantic Ocean where it could head north and go by the English territory of Bermuda, according to the National Weather Service.

According to the Washington Post, Gabrielle is the seventh named storm of this year's hurricane season.

The first hurricane of the 2013 Atlantic has not occurred.

Dating back to 1963, if Gabrielle were to turn into a hurricane, it would stand in fourth place on the list of rankings when hurricane storm systems formed The Post reported.

The list includes Debby on Sept. 2, 1988, Arlene on Sept. 3, 1967, Erin on Sept. 9, 2001, Diana on Sept. 10, 1984, and Gustav on Sept. 11, 2002.

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