What is Hurricane Laura?
{{Infobox Hurricane | Name = Hurricane Laura | Type = hurricane | Year = 2020 | Basin = Atl | Image location = Laura 2020-08-26 2300Z.png | Image name = Hurricane Laura near peak intensity on August 26 | Formed = August 20, 2020 | Dissipated = August 29, 2020 | 1-min winds = 130 | Pressure = 937 | Damages = 19100 | Fatalities = 47 direct, 30 indirect | Areas = [[Leeward Islands]], [[Puerto Rico]], [[Hispaniola]], [[Bahamas]], [[Jamaica]], [[Cuba]], [[Yucatan Peninsula]], [[Gulf Coast of the United States]] (especially [[Louisiana]] and [[Texas]]) | Hurricane season = [[2020 Atlantic hurricane season]] | name = Hurricane Laura }} '''Hurricane Laura''' was a deadly and destructive [[Atlantic hurricane|tropical cyclone.]] Hurricane Laura, the [[1856 Last Island hurricane]] and [[Hurricane Ida (2021)|Hurricane Ida]] are the strongest hurricanes to make landfall in Louisiana in terms of maximum sustained winds, and the strongest to affect Louisiana since [[Hurricane Camille]] brought category 5 winds to the rural southeast portion of the state. The twelfth named storm, fourth hurricane, and first major storm of the record-breaking [[2020 Atlantic hurricane season]], Laura formed from a [[tropical wave]] that moved off the [[West Africa|coast of West Africa]] on August 16, and formed into a tropical depression by August 20. On August 21, Laura strengthened into a tropical storm, becoming the earliest twelfth named storm, and breaking [[Hurricane Luis|1995's Hurricane Luis's]] record by eight days.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Jake Sodja|first=|date=August 24, 2020|title=Laura's death toll mounting in Caribbean as storm sets course towards U.S.|url=https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/tropical-storm-laura-shatters-record-sets-course-toward-us/799707|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=December 8, 2020|website=[[AccuWeather]]}}</ref> Laura first moved over the [[Lesser Antilles]] and brushing [[Puerto Rico]] as a tropical storm. It made landfall in the resort city of [[Punta Cana|Punta Cana, Dominican Republic]], killing