Cika wannan magana: Cibiyar Guguwar Kasa ta ci gaba da hasashen cewa guguwar za ta yi tsanani kuma ta ratsa tsibiran. Kamar yadda
Guguwar Dean ta kusanto, tsibirin tsibirin ya fara shirya tare da aikin aiki. A ranar 14 ga watan Agusta, Hukumar Ba da Agajin Gaggawa ta Bala'i ta Caribbean (CDERA) ta sanya Tsarin Amsar Yankin ta a cikin jiran aiki kuma ta tuntuɓi Masu Kula da Bala'i na Kasa na dukkan ƙasashe membobin a cikin Antilles. A ranar 15 ga Agusta, Hukumar Ƙasashen Waje ta Amirka (USAID) ta tura rukunin mutane zuwa Barbados, Dominica, da St. Kitts kafin guguwar ta faru don su bincika ɓarnar da za ta yi idan guguwar ta shafi waɗannan tsibiran. Da karfe 11 na yamma AST Agusta 15 (0300 UTC Agusta 16) gwamnatocin St. Lucia, Martinique, Saba, St. Eustatius, da Guadeloupe da masu dogaro da su sun ba da agogon guguwa kuma gwamnatin Netherlands Antilles ta ba da agogon guguwa mai zafi ga tsibirin St. Maarten, kamar yadda ake sa ran Guguwar Guguwar Dean za ta tsananta zuwa ƙarfin guguwa kuma ta isa Tsibirin Windward a cikin awanni 36. Hukumomi a Martinique sun soke wani abin tunawa ga wadanda ke fama da jirgin West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 kuma sun fara kafa wuraren zama.