Invest 93L was moving westward across the Florida Panhandle between Tallahassee and Panama City, as of 7 a.m. Wednesday morning. The storm is expected to continue on its track in a westward motion until it makes landfall somewhere along Louisiana's eastern coast around 2 p.m. Thursday.

Tropical depression or not, it still could bring some heavy rain to parts of the Gulf Coast through the end of the week. The hurricane center said the area of low pressure, or Invest 93L, was between Panama City and Tallahassee,