You could be right, this may be a Tropical depression for all of 30 minutes, the latest Recon obs have pressure at 1002.9 and with the fairly large region of tropical storm force winds earlier, a good case for the system already being a tropical storm exists.
Either way, once we get the Vortex message, we should know more.
-------------------- M. S. Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech - May 2020
U. Arizona PhD Student