CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - A tropical depression that was moving across the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday is forecast to become a hurricane by this weekend.

The said the morning of Sept. 17 that the system had become a depression. The center’s showed the depression was on track to become a tropical storm by Thursday morning, and a hurricane by Sunday morning.

At the time when the depression -- formally known as “Tropical Depression Seven” -- was upgraded, the National Hurricane Center said it was “not expected to affect land during the next several days.” It was then still about 2,000 miles off the Carolina coast.

As of the Wednesday morning update, the system was moving west at 13 mph, and had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph.

The National Hurricane Center’s forecast cone showed the

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