A cluster of thunderstorms that meteorologists call a tropical disturbance was moving west across the far northern Gulf on Thursday, delivering scattered heavy rainfall over the central Gulf Coast. Rain was expected to continue into Friday.

A sprawling area storms churning toward the Gulf Coast threatens to bring significant rain and flash flooding this week to a large swath of the southeast, from the Florida panhandle to Louisiana and parts of eastern Texas.

Millions of people along the U.S. Gulf Coast are under a risk for flash flooding to end the week as a moisture-packed tropical disturbance moves over the region. Portions of Florida saw more than 150 mm of rain from this system as it moved west across the state.