Lili targets Cuba, drenches Jamaica, Haiti

People wait in line for food in Bayamo, Cuba, as Tropical Storm Lili approaches the Cuban coast.

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RELATED Site: National Hurricane Center  CNN.com's Special report: Hurricanes  Tropical Storm Lili At 11 p.m. EDT Saturday Latitude: 19 degrees north Longitude: 76.4 degrees west Position: 105 miles southwest of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Next advisory:  5 a.m. EDT

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Cuba extended tropical storm watches and warnings further west late Saturday as Tropical Storm Lili headed for its southern coast, threatening to bring life-threatening flash floods, according to the U.S. National Weather Service.

Lili spun with sustained winds of 50 mph and drifted to the northwest at about 6 mph, according to the service's 11 p.m. update.

The tropical storm has reorganized after sinking to tropical depression status on Thursday.

At 11 p.m. Saturday, Lili was located 105 miles southwest of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prompting Cuba to upgrade several provinces from a tropical storm watch to a warning.

The entire island of Jamaica, as well as the Cuban provinces of Camaguey, Las Tunas, Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Guantanamo, and Holguin are under a tropical storm warning.

A tropical storm watch is in effect for the Cuban provinces of Matanzas, Cienfuegos, Villa Clara, Sancti Spiritus, and Ciego de Avila.

Two of the Cayman Islands -- Cayman Brac and Little Cayman -- remain under a tropical storm watch.

National Hurricane Center forecasters expect Lili will be near Cuba's southern coast late Saturday or early Sunday. After that, the forecasters said, anything could happen -- including Lili mushrooming into a hurricane as it drives toward the Gulf of Mexico.

Jamaica and the southwestern peninsula of Haiti were deluged Saturday with heavy rain, just as they were a week ago when Hurricane Isidore rammed through just to the south of Lili's current track.

The Atlantic's other tropical weather, Tropical Storm Kyle, was still far out to sea and weakening Saturday morning, about 385 miles south-southeast of Bermuda heading almost due west at 3 mph. Its winds have dropped to near 60 mph.

For a time, at least, Lili was following the path of Isidore, which earlier this week slammed Jamaica, the Isle of Youth and western Cuba with gusting winds and nearly 2 feet of rain. Isidore later crashed ashore on the Yucatan Peninsula, stalled there briefly and lost strength, but regained some of its punch on a northward run for the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Isidore made landfall as a tropical storm on the Louisiana coast early Thursday morning and has since raced north-northeast, leaving a trail of floods and flood warnings and watches stretching as far north as western New England.

Two people died in Mississippi as a result of the storm, said Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Amy Carruth -- a 67-year-old man who died of a heart attack because emergency crews were unable to reach him, and a 31-year-old man who drove off a rain-drenched road to avoid a falling tree.

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