User:DachshundLover82/sandbox/Tropical Storm Gordon (2018)

Preparations
A series of watches and warnings was issued in association with Tropical Storm Gordon. Tropical storm watches were issued for the Alabama-Florida border to Morgan City, Louisiana as well as Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas at 21:00 UTC on September 2. These watches were later upgraded to warnings at 09:00 UTC on September 3. Shortly after Gordon became a tropical storm, tropical storm warnings were issued around 12:30 UTC for Golden Beach to Bonita Beach, Florida as well as Craig Key to Ocean Reef, including Florida Bay, in the Florida Keys. A hurricane watch was issued at 15:00 UTC for the mouth of the Pearl River to the Alabama-Florida border. At the same time, a tropical storm warning was issued for the Alabama-Florida border to the Okaloosa-Walton county line. The hurricane watch was replaced with a hurricane warning around 21:00 UTC on September 3. The watches and warnings were gradually discontinued over the next few days.

A state of emergency was declared for Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, where Gordon was expected to make landfall. In Louisiana, Governor John Bel Edwards deployed 200 Louisiana National Guardsmen, 63 high-water trucks, 39 boats, and four helicopters. Voluntary evacuation orders were posted for some parts of the state. In neighboring Mississippi, all boats were required to be evacuated from marinas in Biloxi.