{"id":1886,"date":"2026-06-16T18:31:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2026-06-16T18:31:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:31:45","slug":"first-storm-of-the-season-could-form-this-week-and-drench-gulf-coast-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=1886","title":{"rendered":"First storm of the season could form this week and drench Gulf coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<article><!-- --><!-- --><!-- WPS-5038 -- removed the script from WPS and added the placeholder for trinity player --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- CONTENT --><!--[--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The National Hurricane Center is tracking a system that could develop into a tropical depression or storm in the next few days, taking aim at the Texas and Louisiana coast.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=1885\">Edwin Lopez sworn in as Miami police chief. Here\u2019s what he says about immigration<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The system, labeled potential tropical cyclone one for now, could strengthen into the first named storm of the season \u2014 Tropical Storm Arthur \u2014 as soon as Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>While wind speeds are expected to stay relatively low, forecasters warn that the storm could drench the Gulf coast with up to a foot of rain from Texas to the far western reaches of the Florida Panhandle.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless of whether the system becomes a tropical cyclone, heavy rainfall and life-threatening flash flooding will be the primary hazards with this system,\u201d forecasters wrote in the 11 a.m. discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=1883\">First storm of the season could form this week and drench Gulf coast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The northwestern Gulf Coast from Sargent, Texas to Morgan City, Louisiana remains under a tropical storm watch, which means tropical storm conditions could be possible within the next day or so. Parts of the Texas and Louisiana Coast could also see two to four feet of storm surge.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The hurricane center also warned that a tornado or two could occur anywhere along that coastal region ahead of the storm\u2019s arrival, including the far western Florida Panhandle.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>This storm is expected to exit the Texas coast sometime late Tuesday and hover just offshore for most of Wednesday, picking up steam and strength and forming a tropical depression and then a tropical storm.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=1881\">A $285M estate was planned here. Two South Florida billionaires just bought it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>A Hurricane Hunter plane is scheduled to check out the storm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--]--><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHC tracks potential tropical cyclone one that may become Tropical Storm Arthur, bringing heavy rain, flash flooding and storm surge to Texas and Louisiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hurricane"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>First storm of the season could form this week and drench Gulf coast - Florida Moving Chronicle<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=1886\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"First storm of the season could form this week and drench Gulf coast - 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