Tropical Storm Oscar is moving across eastern Cuba after making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on the island already beleaguered by a massive power outage.

As of the NHC’s 5 a.m. advisory, the center of what is now Tropical Storm Oscar was located about 5 miles east of Guantanamo, Cuba and 60 miles west of the eastern trip of the island nation moving west at 2 mph with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph. Tropical-storm-force winds extend out up to 45 miles from the center.

Oscar, which the National Hurricane Center characterized as "very small," is the 15th named storm of the hurricane season.

The Cuban Meteorology Institute's Forecast Center has issued a warning this Sunday regarding Hurricane Oscar's impending landfall along the island's

Cubans in the eastern provinces of Holguín and Guantánamo braced for a direct hit by Hurricane Oscar on Sunday afternoon. As the Category 1 hurricane made landfall near Baracoa, a coastal in city in Guantánamo province, around 5:50 p.m., most of the country still had no power.

We haven’t had electricity for three nights,” said one Cuban protestor, amid widespread blackouts. Authorities said the outage stemmed from increased demand but residents say this is just the latest issue in a series of problems with electricity.

Tropical Storm Oscar was moving across eastern Cuba after making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on the island already beleaguered by a massive power outage

Tropical Storm Oscar is forecast to produce life-threatening flash flooding in portions of eastern Cuba, according to the National Hurricane Center.