For the second time in just over a week, a tropical disturbance located just south of the Florida panhandle may have its eyes set on Texas. An area of showers and thunderstorms moved off the Alabama and Florida coasts yesterday afternoon in association with an old frontal boundary. These thunderstorms have persisted all day today and is now showing signs of organization.

The National Hurricane Center has a very close eye on this potential tropical threat to the western gulf. The Airforce Reconnaissance, aka Hurricane Hunters, will be investigating this system tomorrow morning to see if indeed a depression or storm has developed.

The latest indications are that high pressure centered over the nations heartland will begin to break down by the beginning of next week. This system, which could be named Edouard as early as tomorrow, is drifting southwest further into the very hot waters of the Gulf of Mexico around the periphery of the high. As the high breaks down, this may allow this storm, which could reach hurricane strength, to turn more northwest into the middle to upper Texas coast by Tuesday. All interests along the central and upper Texas coasts need to monitor the progress of this storm carefully. All News 3 Tracking Charts can be found at the Aquafina display inside Wal-Mart or Anco Insurance.

Ironically this year marks 25 years since another infamous storm formed in that same exact area. She was known as Alicia. Alicia formed much the same way and went on to become a major hurricane by the time it made landfall at San Luis Pass on the west end of Galveston Island.