Fall storm on horizon?

County officials, NHC keeping eye on Gulf

By Jimmy Galvan

It may be October but the threat of a hurricane has reared up in the Gulf of America and the National Hurricane Center believes the chance of it developing into a tropical depression at 70 percent in the next seven days.

Lavaca County Emergency Management officials are watching the updates on the system.

“October is a month where we sometimes see tropical development in the Gulf. While nothing is cu…