Tropical storm Gordon weakens into a depression

Reuters

Published Sep 05, 2018 08:04AM ET

Tropical storm Gordon weakens into a depression

(Reuters) - Gordon has weakened into a tropical depression over central Mississippi with continued threats of heavy rains and flooding, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Wednesday.

The depression is located about 25 miles (40 km) south-southeast of Jackson, Mississippi with maximum sustained winds of 35 miles per hour(55 km/h), it said.