“Helene’s wind field will be so large that even passing 325 miles west of Miami on Thursday is not enough to keep the entire #Florida peninsula from being placed under a Tropical Storm Warning,” John Morales, hurricane specialist at NBC5, posted on Twitter Wednesday morning.

You can expect gusty winds and potential flooding in South Florida this week from the fringe effects of expected Hurricane Helene as it passes to the west on a track toward the Florida Panhandle. South Florida will “begin to see the first fringe impacts” from Tropical Storm Helene on Tuesday night into Wednesday as “deep tropical moisture” begins to move northward,