Hurricane Oscar makes Landfall in Cuba as a Category One storm

The hurricane made landfall at 5:50 p.m. ET in the Cuban province of Guantanamo, near the city of Baracoa, the hurricane center said.

The storm has weakened, and as of the center's 8 p.m. update, it had winds of 75 mph with higher gusts. At landfall, Oscar was packing maximum sustained winds near 80 mph, NBC reported.

The storm was "bringing hurricane conditions, heavy rainfall, and storm surge to portions of eastern Cuba," the center said.

Oscar, which the National Hurricane Center had characterized as "compact but powerful," formed off the coast of the Bahamas Saturday, prompting a hurricane warning for the north coast of Cuba's Holguin and Guantanamo provinces, all the way to the easternmost tip of the island, Punta de Maisi.

The Category 1 storm was moving west-southwest at 6 mph, according to the hurricane center update.