Nicaragua, Honduras under threat of flooding, mudslides from Tropical Storm Hanna

Tropical Storm Hanna, the eighth named storm of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season, formed quickly Monday morning and has now moved inland after making landfall along the Caribbean coast near the Nicaragua - Honduras border.

A tropical storm warning was issued by the governments of Nicaragua and Honduras for a small part of each country's Caribbean coast.

Hanna is drifting toward the west and moving inland over northern Nicaragua. Given that, Hanna has run out of time to strengthen significantly.

The main concern for Hanna will be heavy rain, flooding and mudslides over the next few days in parts of Honduras and northern Nicaragua, where up to 15 inches of rain may fall. Tropical storm-force winds, mainly in sporadic gusts, until Hanna weakens inland.

Hanna flared up from the remnants of what was Tropical Depression Nine which first formed over the southwest Gulf of Mexico and Bay of Campeche on the evening of October 21.

Satellite-derived wind estimates helped pinpoint an area of tropical storm-force winds embedded in a flare-up of convection Monday morning, leading to the initiation of advisories from the National Hurricane Center.