Hi Mike Crossey a reporting tropical storm Mindy has formed in the Gulf of Mexico near the Florida panhandle forecasters have issued a tropical storm warning for part of the Florida panhandle for tropical storm Mindy Mindy developed into a tropical storm Wednesday in the northeast Gulf of Mexico the national hurricane center says Mindy could cause as much as six inches of rainfall across the Florida panhandle and portions of southern Georgia and South Carolina through Thursday morning scattered flash urban and small stream floods are possible hi Mike Rossio