Forecasters with the National Hurricane Center are tracking five systems in the Atlantic Ocean, including one tropical storm and two tropical depressions. However, the system most likely to affect the United States was located in the Western Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico,

Tropical Storm Kirk formed in the Atlantic Monday. Another disturbances in the Atlantic. Gulf Coast residents should monitor the one in the Caribbean.

As Florida's Gulf Coast and several southeastern states grapple with the remnants and loss of Hurricane Helene -- a Category 4 storm that made landfall in the Big Bend Thursday -- the National Hurricane Center is monitoring several disturbances.