At a Glance

Tropical Storm Karen is centered in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean.A combination of dry air and shearing winds is expected to lead to its demise this weekend.

Tropical Storm Karen was a rainmaker for the eastern Caribbean, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Karen formed on Sept. 22 between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago and quickly entered the eastern Caribbean.

Karen then wobbled northward toward Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands as a disorganized cluster of thunderstorms.

The National Hurricane Center said Karen's center moved over Vieques and Culebra, two Caribbean islands off Puerto Rico's eastern coast, on Tuesday evening, Sept. 24.

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Parts of Puerto Rico picked up 2 to 5 inches of rain, according to the National Weather Service.

Flooding trapped 15 families in their homes in the Cuyón neighborhood of Coamo, about 30 miles southwest of San Juan, on Tuesday, Sept. 24. In Toa Baja, one home was flooded and two residents were trapped in their home by floodwaters.

Two piers were washed out by storm surge flooding on Vieques Island, the National Weather Service reported.

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After sweeping through the U.S. territories, Karen moved northward to a couple hundred miles south of Bermuda, where the system hit hostile conditions and slowly unraveled.

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