Time is running out for Floridians in the path of future Hurricane Helene, which threatens to hit as the strongest storm to make landfall in the United States in over a year.

The Florida panhandle — including Tallahassee and the campuses of Florida State University and Florida A&M University — are in the cone of uncertainty for the track of Hurricane Helene, the National Hurricane Center said.

A potential hurricane -- which would be named Helene -- is churning in the Caribbean and is forecast to make landfall along the Florida Panhandle on Thursday.

An area of thunderstorms in the Caribbean is expected to develop into Hurricane Helene and rapidly intensify over the exceptionally warm Gulf of Mexico before slamming into the United States’ Gulf Coast later this week as a major hurricane.