Hurricane Sally came ashore on the Gulf Coast this morning, impacting Alabama and Florida as it continues to spin as a Category 2 and move toward Georgia and the Carolinas over the inland area.

The National Hurricane Center put the eye of Hurricane Sally at a Category 1 just over the Florida panhandle as it continues to move inland, with remnants of the storm expected to pass over Georgia and South Carolina through the rest of the week and into Friday.

Which for Polk County means a Flash Flood Watch is now is going into effect starting at 2 p.m., and will remain in place through Friday morning as forecasters call for bands of isolated storms that are part of Hurricane Sally’s outer reaches as the wind also picks up from the storm. Expect heavy rainfall and gusty winds up to 25 mph coming this way, with several inches of water dumped across Polk County over the next few days.

At least an inch of rain is expected on Thursday, potentially more as the storm tracks inland. It should weaken to a tropical storm through the rest of the day, and become a Tropical Depression as it continues to dump rain across the state through Thursday and move out by Friday morning over South and North Carolina into the weekend.

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So far, historic flooding has been the biggest problem with Hurricane Sally in places like Pensacola, Florida, and has already dumped upward of 15 inches of rain on the area and could have nearly three feet of additional rainfall before the storm passes onward. Power is out for more than 500,000 people, per CNN.

Hurricane Sally is the latest storm this year to make landfall, and with the number of tropical systems being tracked by the National Hurricane Center now at seven, might not be the last of the year. Paulette was previously a hurricane and has lost its strength heading into the North Atlantic, there’s some possibility of two more systems in the Gulf and off the West African coast forming into hurricanes, and Hurricane Teddy is heading toward the Caribbean Sea and Tropical Storm Vicky is gathering strength not far behind.

Check back for additional updates on Hurricane Sally’s impact locally as new information from forecasters becomes available.