MIAMI —

       Rain was pouring down on southeast Georgia and coastal South Carolina as Mindy, previously a tropical storm but now a tropical depression, made its way across the states early Thursday.

       The storm made landfall on St. Vincent Island, Fla., on Wednesday night. Mindy was expected to cause as much as 6 inches of rainfall across the Florida Panhandle and portions of southern Georgia and South Carolina through Thursday morning, the National Hurricane Center said. Scattered flash, urban, and small-stream floods are possible.

       The storm Thursday morning was about 80 miles south-southeast of Valdosta, Ga., and moving northeast at 20 mph with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph, forecasters said.

       A slower east-northeast motion is forecast Thursday night through Saturday. The center of Mindy is expected to move across southeastern Georgia on Thursday morning and over the western Atlantic by later in the day.

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       Little change in strength is forecast through Thursday night. Gradual weakening is expected Friday, and Mindy is forecast to become a remnant by Saturday.

       A tropical storm warning is in effect from Mexico Beach, Fla., to the Steinhatchee River to the east. That area is about 300 miles east of southern Louisiana, where Hurricane Ida made landfall late last month. The region is still recovering from that deadly and destructive Category 4 storm.

       Mindy is the 13th named storm of what has been another busy Atlantic hurricane season. According to a tweet from Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach, the average date for the 13th named storm from 1991-2020 was Oct. 24.