Tropical Storm Laura has formed in the Atlantic, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Friday.
The 12th named storm of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was located about 230 miles (375 km) east-southeast of the Northern Leeward Islands, with maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour (75 kph), the NHC said.
(Reporting by K. Sathya Narayanan and Diptendu Lahiri in Bengaluru; editing by Chizu Nomiyama)