Tropical Storm Imelda is bringing dangerous surf, high wind gusts, and a high risk of rip currents to Jacksonville beaches, according to The Weather Authority's latest forecast. Get details on what to expect and important safety advice before heading out.

Although the storm will remain far from land, its effects will be felt strongly along the coast, bringing dangerous surf, strong winds, and a high risk of rip currents.

Tropical Storm Imelda poses Rip Current and High Surf threat

Imelda strengthens as it moves away from the Bahamas

Tropical Storm Imelda and Hurricane Humberto are driving dangerous surf, rip currents, and gusty winds along the Jacksonville coastline, with spotty showers and storms expected through the week.

Authorities in the Bahamas have closed a majority of schools following mandatory evacuations for some islands in the archipelago as Tropical Storm Imelda drops heavy rain and unleashes flooding in the northern Caribbean, with two people killed in Cuba.

Could become a hurricane before mid week

Tropical Storm Imelda has formed near eastern Cuba

A faster motion to the north for TD 9 to continue through Sunday and Monday.

Tropical Storm Imelda has formed near the Bahamas and is forecast to become a hurricane curving away from the southeast U.S. seacoast early this week.

Crews have been preparing for a weather system forecast to hit South Carolina as a hurricane early next week.

Crews are preparing for a weather system forecast to near South Carolina as a hurricane early next week.

HOUSTON – As Tropical Storm Beta neared the Texas coast Monday, the biggest unknown was how much rainfall it could produce in areas that have already seen their share of damaging weather during a busy hurricane season. Rain from Beta was already coming down Monday in the Houston area. Earlier predictions of up to 20 inches (51 centimeters) in some areas were downgraded Monday to up to 15 inches (38 centimeters). Forecasters and officials reassured residents Beta was not expected to be another Hurricane Harvey or Tropical Storm Imelda. Harvey in 2017 dumped more than 50 inches (127 centimeters) of rain on Houston, causing $125 billion in damage in Texas.

HOUSTON – As Tropical Storm Beta neared the Texas coast Monday, the biggest unknown was how much rainfall it could produce in areas that have already seen their share of damaging weather during a busy hurricane season. Rain from Beta was already coming down Monday in the Houston area. Earlier predictions of up to 20 inches (51 centimeters) in some areas were downgraded Monday to up to 15 inches (38 centimeters). Forecasters and officials reassured residents Beta was not expected to be another Hurricane Harvey or Tropical Storm Imelda. Harvey in 2017 dumped more than 50 inches (127 centimeters) of rain on Houston, causing $125 billion in damage in Texas.

Forecasters said Beta was not expected to bring the same amount of rainfall that Texas experienced during either Hurricane Harvey in 2017 or Tropical Storm Imelda last year. The first rain bands from Beta reached the Texas coast on Sunday, but the heaviest rain wasn't expected to arrive until Monday into Tuesday. If the system makes landfall in Texas, it would be the ninth named storm to make landfall in the continental U.S. in 2020. A tropical storm warning was in effect for Bermuda. Wilfred, which had been a tropical storm, weakened to a tropical depression earlier Sunday.

After a mother made a frantic 911 call while trapped inside a sinking vehicle with her 5-month-old child in Houston, she is finally meeting the woman who helped save her. I thought I was going to die, she told Inside Edition. By the time I called 911, water was up to his head in the car seat and he's sitting there laughing at me!Dispatcher Tammy Parker took the 911 call. Do you have a hammer, a center punch or anything heavy and hard to break the window with? Parker told the mom on the 911 call. Thank you a lot, you saved my life and my child's life, Cangemi told Parker.

Drivers in Winnie, Texas, were trapped in I-10 between Houston and Beaumont after remnants of Tropical Storm Imelda moved through on Sept. 19, 2019. Hide Caption

NOTE: Follow latest on this storm in new story:Tropical Story Jerry will become hurricane in CarribeanThe National Hurricane Center said Tropical Depression 10 formed Tuesday morning far out in the Atlantic. NHC also developed another depression in the Gulf of Mexico, that later became Tropical Storm Imelda Tuesday afternoon. Six hours later, the system was moving west-northwest at 10 mph with 35 mph winds. Soon to be Tropical Storm JerryIt is forecast to strengthen into a tropical storm -- likely to be called Jerry -- later Wednesday and become a hurricane by the time it moves near the northern Leeward Islands Friday. Elsewhere in the tropicsTropical Depression 11 formed in the Gulf offshore Freeport, Texas, about noon Tuesday and was upgraded hours later to Tropical Storm Imelda, with winds nears near 40 mph.