As Hurricane Helene — now a Category 4 storm — moves toward Florida's Big Bend, the Treasure Coast is still feeling some light winds, with stronger gusts and isolated rainfall Thursday evening. The Treasure Coast saw tornado watches lifted for Indian River, St. Lucie and Martin counties at 8 p.m. by the National Weather Service in Melbourne.

First responders from the Treasure Coast went north Friday morning to provide assistance to counties heavily impacted by Hurricane Helene.

Meteorologists are monitoring a disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico that will bring rain to the Florida peninsula later this week.

After the Treasure Coast avoided any direct impacts from Helene, local first responders were deployed Friday morning to the West Coast of Florida to help with the aftermath of what quickly grew to a Category 4 hurricane Thursday night when it made landfall near Perry in Taylor County.