Hurricane Elsa was the fifth tropical cyclone in the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season. On 30 June it developed as Potential Tropical Cyclone Five and on the following day it was upgraded to Tropical Storm Elsa. On July 2 at 1145 UTC Tropical Storm Elsa intensified and became Hurricane Elsa, passing near Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Saint Lucia, spreading hurricane-force winds and tropical-storm-force winds over these countries.