Tropical storm Debby to dissipate by Friday - NHC

(Reuters) - Tropical storm Debby should become an extratropical cyclone by Thursday afternoon or evening before dissipating on Friday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) forecast.

Debby was located about 1,020 miles (1,640 km) west-northwest of the Azores, packing maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 km/h), the NHC added.

(Reporting by Sumita Layek and Nallur Sethuraman in Bengaluru; editing by John Stonestreet)