 On August 30 , a tropical storm named Baker by the Air Weather Service in real time , was first detected about 275 mi ( 445 km ) east of Barbados , by a ship that reported high easterly seas and winds of Force 10 . Upon being initially observed , Baker was already at its peak maximum sustained winds of 60 mph ( 95 km / h ) . The small system moved rapidly westward and slowly weakened to a marginal tropical cyclone on August 31 . On the morning of September 1 , Baker passed between Saint Lucia and Martinique , when a reconnaissance aircraft mission reported a minimum pressure of 1007 mbar ( 29 @.@ 73 inHg ) . Subsequent missions failed to detect a center of circulation , and the tropical cyclone quickly degenerated to a tropical depression . Baker dissipated over the eastern Caribbean Sea on September 1 . The storm brought heavy rainfall to several eastern Caribbean islands , though most of it was beneficial . On Puerto Rico , water supplies and crops were replenished . 
