text:  Fox News, I'm Chris DiMaio. Barrel becoming the first hurricane of this year's Atlantic tropical cyclone season. National Hurricane Director Michael Brennan says islands near the Caribbean are in its path. Barrel 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 on the eyewall, life-threatening storm surge. We have hurricane watches and warnings in effect for the Windward Islands.