What is Hurricane Elsa?
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox Hurricane | Name = Hurricane Elsa | Type = Category 1 hurricane | Year = 2021 | Basin = Atl | Image location = Elsa 2021-07-02 1300Z.jpg | Image name = Hurricane Elsa near peak intensity in the Lesser Antilles on July 2 | Formed = July 1, 2021 | Dissipated = July 9, 2021 | 1-min winds = 75 | Pressure = 991 | Damages = ≥ $1.2 billion (2021 [[USD]]) | Fatalities = 4 total | Areas = [[Barbados]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]], [[Leeward Islands]], [[Windward Islands]], [[Venezuela]], [[Hispaniola]], [[Cuba]], [[Jamaica]], [[Cayman Islands]], [[South Atlantic United States]] | Hurricane season = [[2021 Atlantic hurricane season]] }} '''Hurricane Elsa''' was an [[Atlantic hurricane|Atlantic tropical cyclone]] that formed during early July 2021. The storm became a [[tropical depression]] on July 1. It strengthened to Tropical Storm Elsa just under six hours later.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tropical Storm Elsa|publisher=The National Hurricane Center|url=https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2021/al05/al052021.public.003.shtml?|access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref> Elsa was the strongest July hurricane in the [[Caribbean Sea]] since [[Hurricane Emily (2005)|Hurricane Emily]] [[2005 Atlantic hurricane season|sixteen years earlier]]. The storm was also the fastest-moving [[tropical cyclone]] in that part of the Atlantic. Tropical cyclone notices were posted from the [[Windward Islands]] to [[Cuba]] several days in advance of the storm. It was downgraded to a strong [[tropical storm]] just before moving north of [[Jamaica]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Tropical Storm Elsa|publisher=National Hurricane Center|url=https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2021/al05/al052021.discus.015.shtml|access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref> The storm later began threatening western and central [[Florida]]. Several days before Elsa was expected to move over the state, the Champlain Towers South was demolished on [[Independence Day]] July 4 after having [[Surfside condominium building collapse|collapsed almost eleven days earlier]] in th