Hurricane Josephine

Hurricane Josephine was a powerful tropical cyclone that caused widespread destruction and casualties across the Gulf Coast of the United States. The tenth named storm, sixth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, Josephine developed from a tropical wave that moved off the west coast of Africa on August 16. The wave gradually organized as it moved westward across the tropical Atlantic, becoming the season's eleventh tropical depression on August 22 while east of the Windward Islands. Early on the following day, the depression strengthened into a tropical storm early on the following day.