The National Hurricane Center once again dropped the likelihood of formation for the tropical system hovering just offshore of Mississippi to 30% in the next two to seven days.

The weather system moving across the Florida Panhandle was showing signs of becoming a tropical depression on Thursday while moving towards the northern Gulf Coast, officials said

The system is threatening to bring heavy rain and the risk of flash floods to the northeastern and central Gulf Coast this week, and could become a tropical depression within days.

A disturbance called Invest 93L by the National Hurricane Center could turn into a tropical depression or the next named storm of hurricane season.

"Environmental conditions appear generally favorable for additional development, and a tropical depression could form." Hagen says that regardless of development, heavy rainfall could produce localized flash flooding. He currently gives it a 40% chance of ...

Current projections call for 4 to 8 inches of rain from Florida through coastal Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, with isolated totals as high as 16 inches.Wind gusts could reach 40 to 60 mph in parts of southeastern Louisiana,

A sprawling tropical system churning toward the Gulf Coast threatens to bring significant rain and flash flooding this week to a large swath of the southeast, from the Florida panhandle to Louisiana and parts of eastern Texas.

The National Hurricane Center is tracking a disturbance moving into the Northern Gulf that they say has a 40% chance of organizing into a tropical depression. As of midday Tuesday, the disorganized area of thunderstorms was traversing the Florida peninsula,