The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Hermine (her-MEEN) has formed from a system swirling in the Gulf of Mexico. The National Hurricane Center has placed the southern half of Georgia's 100-mile coast under a tropical storm watch. He noted that even tropical storm-force winds downed trees and power lines when Tropical Storm Iselle hit two years ago. A tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico is forecast to strengthen to a tropical storm before making landfall Thursday night or Friday morning along the northwest coast of Florida. The tropical depression could become a tropical storm later Wednesday though no coastal warnings and watches are in effect for it.

Source: ABC News August 31, 2016 09:23 UTC