Tropical Storm Joyce (2024) (Blackford)

Tropical Storm Joyce was a weak, and short-lived storm which stayed out to sea, only causing one death from rip currents in The Gambia. It was the tenth tropical storm of the record-breaking 2024 Atlantic hurricane season.

However, the remnants of Joyce would go on to regenerate and become Hurricane Leslie, a powerful Category 5 hurricane.

Meteorological history
On August 14, the NHC began tracking a tropical wave that was anticipated to move off the coast of Africa for the possibility of becoming a tropical or subtropical storm.

At the time, the wave had a 20% chance of development within 48 hours and a 50% chance within 5 days.

By August 17, the wave had a 60% chance of development within 5 days, and on August 18, the NHC initiated advisories on Tropical Depression Twelve.

At this point, most models showed the storm moving west and intensifying into a Category 2 or 3 hurricane, however as it stalled a cold pool and strong wind shear caught up with it on August 19.

The storm did intensify into Tropical Storm Joyce on the 19th, however it quickly weakened to a tropical depression.

The NHC ended advisories on Joyce on August 20 as it lost it's identity, however on August 24 it's parent wave would regenerate and would go on to form into Hurricane Leslie.

Aftermath
A search party was sent out on August 21 for a man who went missing on a beach in The Gambia. He was later found dead at sea on August 25, and it was determined he was killed by rip currents as a result of Joyce.