Claims News Service, August 23, 12:59 p.m. EDT — Tropical Storm Debby was named yesterday evening after forming from a very strong wave that emerged from the African coast over the weekend, according to Dr. Steve Smith an atmospheric physicist and senior vice president at Carvill's ReAdvisory.

According to Smith, the tropical wave was unusually strong and coherent and formed a tropical depression soon after entering the Atlantic. So far, Debby has tracked west-northwestward, passing to the south of the Cape Verde islands, which are located more than 400 miles off the coast of Africa. Debby is in the open Atlantic and is not expected by the National Hurricane Center to come anywhere near land for at least the next three-to-five days.

Smith expects that Debby will remain in the open ocean throughout its life cycle and will present no threat to land, passing well east of Bermuda.

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