 Chris DeMeo, Barrow becoming the first hurricane of this year's Atlantic tropical cyclone season. National Hurricane Director Michael Brennan says islands near the Caribbean Sea are in its path. Barrow is expected to be a dangerous major hurricane when it moves through the windward islands late Sunday night or Monday, bringing potentially destructive hurricane force winds in the eyewall, life-threatening storm surge. We have hurricane watches and warnings in effect for the windward islands. Barrow grew rapidly from a tropical depression to a tropical storm and finally into a hurricane within 24 hours.