The National Hurricane Center is advising Panhandle residents to keep an eye on a rapidly moving and growing storm in the west-central Caribbean.

“The system is expected to enter into the Gulf of Mexico Friday night and continue moving northwestward toward the central or northwestern U.S. Gulf coast, potentially bringing dangerous impacts from storm surge, wind and heavy rainfall to portions of the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle by Sunday and Monday,” the center said in its tropical weather outlook.

“However, uncertainty in the system's exact track and intensity remains large since the low is just beginning to form.”

The center placed at 90 percent the chance of the system forming into a named storm within 48 hours.

The next named storm will be dubbed Ida.