The National Hurricane Center continued to watch a tropical disturbance that was hugging the northern coast of South America on Thursday.

The hurricane center designated the system Potential Tropical Cyclone 13 on Thursday morning and began issuing advisories on it. Storms are given the title of “potential tropical cyclone” when they aren’t organized enough to be considered a tropical depression or storm but could bring some of those same effects to land areas.

The disturbance isn’t expected to threaten the U.S., but the long-range track shows a potential hurricane landfall in Central America this weekend.

The disturbance was expected to become a tropical depression tonight, a tropical storm on Friday and a hurricane as it heads toward Central America. The next name on the 2022 storm list is Julia.

A tropical storm warning has been issued for part of the coast of Colombia on Thursday. The system could bring up to 6 inches of rain to parts of Colombia, Venezuela and some of the nearby islands over the next few days.

The central Caribbean is where Hurricane Ian got its start, but this system is expected to take a different track and will likely not affect the U.S. at all, according to forecasters. Instead it could continue westward and strike Nicaragua as a hurricane, possibly by Sunday.

Potential Tropical Cyclone 13 was located about 150 miles east-southeast of Curaco as of 10 a.m. CDT Thursday and was tracking to the west at 15 mph.

The disturbance had sustained winds of 35 mph, which is tropical depression strength. However, it doesn’t have a well-defined center just yet, the hurricane center said.

However, if it stays far enough away from land it will likely strengthen to Tropical Storm Julia on Friday and Hurricane Julia by Sunday, when it could be nearing landfall.

The hurricane center said that on the forecast track the disturbance is expected to move near the ABC Islands, the coast of northwestern Venezuela and the Guajira Peninsula of Colombia through Friday morning. It is then expected to track across the southwestern Caribbean Sea and approach the coast of Nicaragua on Sunday.

The long-range track shows the system continuing to track westward and into Honduras and Guatemala while weakening.

The hurricane center said tropical storm conditions are expected along the coast of Colombia by early Friday. Gusts to tropical storm force are also possible across the ABC Islands and the northwestern coast of Venezuela later today and tonight.