Tropical Cyclone Laura was the thirteenth tropical cyclone in the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season and the earliest twelfth named storm on record in the North Atlantic basin. On 21 August it was upgraded from a tropical depression to a tropical storm while it was over the tropical Atlantic, just to the east of the northern Leeward Islands. After the passage over the northern Leeward Islands, Tropical Storm Laura headed for the island of Hispaniola. On 23 August, its centre passed over Haiti, spreading tropical-storm-force winds over the country.