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. On the same day, its centre passed between Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat and Saint Kitts and Nevis, spreading tropical-storm-force winds over these countries.