{"id":345397,"date":"2026-07-19T17:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/345397\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T17:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:40:17","slug":"tropical-depression-2-forms-in-northern-gulf-threatens-florida-panhandle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/345397\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Depression 2 forms in northern Gulf, threatens Florida panhandle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 19, 2026 at 11:29 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0July 19, 2026 at 12:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HEZSQJA3GBAE3OJIKMEZFVPMYU.png\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The National Hurricane Center has issued advisories for Tropical Depression Two in the northern Gulf. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The depression is moving toward the north-northwest near two mph and a slow northwestward or north-northwestward motion is expected during the next day or two, followed by a turn toward the west. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/BG5TMC6OXVH4BO7K4Y42HBDXME.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Tropical Depression 2 <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On the forecast track, the depression will move near or along the northern Gulf coast during the next several days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Maximum sustained winds are near 30 mph with higher gusts. Gradual strengthening is forecast, and the depression is expected to become a tropical storm tonight or on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The minimum central pressure based on surface observations is 1011 mb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Tropical Storm Watch has been issued for Florida from Ochlockonee River to the Alabama border.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jennifer Collins\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/DQAAGWJMSNC57FRYCRFK7TFG.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Jennifer Collins<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Meteorologist Jennifer Collins joined the Local 10 team in June 2026. You can catch her forecasts Saturday and Sunday mornings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 19, 2026 at 11:29 AM Updated:\u00a0July 19, 2026 at 12:00 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand The National Hurricane Center has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-345397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}