Tropical Cyclone Ernesto is the fifth named cyclone and the third hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season. On 13 August at 0000UTC, Ernesto formed as a tropical storm while approaching the Leeward Islands. During the day, it passed over Montserrat, and within the vicinity of Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Sint Maarten, and Anguilla, spreading tropical-storm-force conditions over these countries in only six hours.