A sprawling tropical disturbance moving toward the Gulf Coast is raising alarms across the Southeast, with forecasters warning of torrential rain, flash flooding, and stalled storms that could overwhelm already saturated areas.

A sprawling area of storms that still has a chance of becoming a tropical system is churning toward the Gulf Coast and threatens to bring significant rain and flash flooding this week to a large swath of the southeast,

The National Hurricane Center on Thursday lowered its forecast chances that a system that had moved over Florida the day previous could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or

As of Wednesday morning, the National Hurricane Center held the chances of the system developing into a tropical depression or storm at 40% over the next two to seven days. The greatest impacts will likely be in the northern end of the Gulf,

There’s growing concern for another significant rain and flooding event this week, this time along the Gulf Coast, from what could become the Atlantic basin’s next tropical system.