Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, including Tampa, Clearwater and St. Petersburg, are in the forecast path of Hurricane Milton. Hurricane and storm surge watches have been posted.

Milton's anticipated landfall along Florida's west coast has the National Hurricane Center issuing watches and warnings. Here are the latest watches and warnings issued for the Tampa Bay area ahead of Hurricane Milton. This story will be updated with the most up-to-date information available.

Hurricane Milton is continuing to rapidly intensify before its expected landfall along Florida’s Gulf Coast sometime Wednesday. The National Hurricane Center on Monday issued a hurricane watch for a stretch of the coastline including Tampa Bay, which remained roughly in the middle of the forecast cone.