Hurricane Laura is currently a large and powerful tropical cyclone threatening the Gulf Coast of the United States after hitting the Lesser and Greater Antilles and the Florida Keys as a weak to moderate tropical storm. Laura is the thirteenth tropical cyclone, the twelfth named storm, the fourth hurricane, and the first major hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. Laura is the strongest August hurricane by wind speed in the Gulf of Mexico since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.[1] It is the earliest twelfth named storm on record in the North Atlantic basin, arriving eight days earlier than 1995's Hurricane Luis.