The best track data for 2pm EDT Friday has it as a tropical storm, though they have not named it yet there. Even if they do add the name there, it's not official until the NHC does it in an advisory.
Listed as a 35 knot tropical storm in the NHC's ATCF system:
AL, 22, 2020091818, , BEST, 0, 239N, 933W, 35, 1005, TS, 34, NEQ, 90, 0, 0, 80, 1009, 180, 40, 45, 0, L, 0, , 0, 0, TWENTY-TWO, M, 0, , 0, 0, 0, 0, genesis-num, 044,
From: https://ftp.nhc.noaa.gov/atcf/btk/bal222020.dat |