In the days since Houston and the rest of the Texas Gulf Coast watched Hurricane Francine slam into neighboring southern Louisiana on Sept. 11, National Hurricane Center forecasters are now warily watching Tropical Storm Gordon,

Tropical Storm Gordon, which became a named storm Friday, is weakening and forecast to become a depression later Sunday.

Tropical Storm Gordon is expected to turn away from the U.S. in the next couple of days and could even degenerate as it spirals through the Atlantic Ocean, according to

The National Hurricane Center is tracking Tropical Storm Gordon in the Atlantic, a system northeast of the Florida coast and 3 tropical waves Sunday.